Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+565%
14.75 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Aug 2015
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
1536
256
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
64
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
100W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GM204
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GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
