NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1700MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +265%

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

8

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

DG2-128

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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