Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 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 5 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 172.8GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (122W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+580%
14.75 TFLOPS
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
2.169 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Aug 2012
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
172.8GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
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8192
Shading Units
1536
256
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
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-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.59 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
90.37 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.169 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
90.37 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
122W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GK104
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Generation 12.7
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
294 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
-
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
