Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GRID M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 8GB VRAM GRID M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
7808 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+1760%
14.75 TFLOPS
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
May 2016
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
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-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
83.20GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
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8192
Shading Units
384
256
TMUs
32
128
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.53 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.06 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
793.3 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
50W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GM107
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Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
