Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA Quadro CX
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 1536MB VRAM Quadro CX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
8000 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro CX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+3092%
14.75 TFLOPS
Quadro CX
0.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2008
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro CX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1536MB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
8192
Shading Units
192
256
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
192 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.45 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.53 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
462.3 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GT200B
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
55 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.3
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
