NVIDIA GRID K2 vs Intel Arctic Sound M

VS

NVIDIA GRID K2

Intel Arctic Sound M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 16GB VRAM Intel 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

Intel Arctic Sound M +544%

14.75 TFLOPS

GRID K2

VS

Intel Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

GRID

Generation

Xe Graphics

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

DG2-512

GK104-895-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.175

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.6

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