NVIDIA GRID M40 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
7808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
+1760%
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Jan 2022
GRID
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
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384
Shading Units
8192
32
TMUs
256
16
ROPs
128
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64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
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2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
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Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
500W
250 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
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Maxwell
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
8 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
