NVIDIA GRID K2 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 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 K2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
+544%
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Jan 2022
GRID
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
8192
128
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.6
