NVIDIA Quadro M500M vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

VS

NVIDIA Quadro M500M Intel Arctic Sound-M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM Quadro M500M 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 M500M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

7808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro M500M

0.863 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M +1609%

14.75 TFLOPS

Quadro M500M

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Apr 2016

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

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

64bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

8192

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

N15M-Q3

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

Unknown

Transistors

8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

500W

-

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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