Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 317.4GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1114MHz
Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+115%
14.75 TFLOPS
Quadro M6000
6.844 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2015
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
988 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
3072
256
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
250W
900 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GM200
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
8 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
