Arc Pro A40 vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc Pro A40 Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1700MHz vs 1188MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc Pro A40
+90%
3482
GeForce GTX 950
1825
3DMark Time Spy
Arc Pro A40
+74%
3328
GeForce GTX 950
1903
Graphics Card
Aug 2022
Release Date
Aug 2015
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
1024
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
8
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
54.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
6.963 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
870.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
90W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
GM206
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
157 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
