Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+544%
14.75 TFLOPS
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
May 2013
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
1536
256
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
225W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GK104
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GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.175
-
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
