NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)
5696 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K20c
3.524 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
+318%
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
Tesla
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
5GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
320bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
208.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2496
Shading Units
8192
208
TMUs
256
40
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1280 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
36.71 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
146.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
3.524 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
1175 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GK110-885-KA-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
8 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
