NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q 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 M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
+565%
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Jan 2022
GRID
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
8192
96
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
500W
300 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
