Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA Quadro 400
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)
8144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+13557%
14.75 TFLOPS
Quadro 400
0.108 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2011
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
770 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM2e
Memory Type
DDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
64bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
12.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
8192
Shading Units
48
256
TMUs
16
128
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.200 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
108.0 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
32W
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GT216
-
GPU Variant
GT216 GL
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
40 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
6.6
Shader Model
4.1
