CMP 170HX vs Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
CMP 170HX 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1700MHz vs 1410MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
CMP 170HX
+262%
12630
Arc Pro A40
3482
Graphics Card
Sep 2021
Release Date
Aug 2022
Mining GPUs
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1140 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1458 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
96bit
1493GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
70
SM Count
-
4480
Shading Units
1024
280
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
280
Tensor Cores
-
-
RT Cores
8
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
180.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
50.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
12.63 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
DG2-128
GA100-105F-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
6 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
8.0
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
