Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA Tesla K20X
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 6GB VRAM Tesla K20X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 249.6GB/s)
5504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Tesla K20X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (235W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+274%
14.75 TFLOPS
Tesla K20X
3.935 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2012
Xe Graphics
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
249.6GB/s
Render Config
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8192
Shading Units
2688
256
TMUs
224
128
ROPs
48
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L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
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Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.99 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
164.0 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1312 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
235W
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
GK110
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Generation 12.7
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
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CUDA
3.5
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
