NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

8096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro 500M

0.269 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M +5383%

14.75 TFLOPS

Quadro 500M

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro Mobile

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

8192

16

TMUs

256

4

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

N12M-Q3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

40 nm

Process Size

10 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

500W

-

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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