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NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs Intel Arctic Sound M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla K40c and 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla K40c 's Advantages
Boost Clock876MHz
Lower TDP (245W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)
5312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Tesla K40c
5.046 TFLOPS
Intel Arctic Sound M +192%
14.75 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2022
Tesla
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

745 MHz
Base Clock
-
876 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
-
-
2880
Shading Units
8192
240
TMUs
256
48
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

52.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
210.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
5.046 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
1.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS

Board Design

245W
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

GK180
GPU Name
DG2-512
GK180-890-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.5
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
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