NVIDIA A2 vs Intel Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1700MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+30%
4.531 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A40
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2022
Quadro
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
96bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
1024
40
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
8
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
DG2-128
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.7
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
6 nm
Unknown
Transistors
7.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
157 mm²
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
