NVIDIA B100 vs Intel Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1837MHz vs 1700MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
15872 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+1682%
62.08 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A40
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Aug 2022
Server Blackwell
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
6GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
96bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
132
SM Count
-
16896
Shading Units
1024
528
TMUs
64
24
ROPs
32
528
Tensor Cores
-
-
RT Cores
8
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
50 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
50W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
DG2-128
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Blackwell
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
6 nm
104 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
Unknown
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
10.1
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
