NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs Intel Arc A580

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (2000MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +204%

37.42 TFLOPS

Arc A580

12.29 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe +116%

4170

Arc A580

1929

A40 PCIe

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2023

Tesla

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

3072

336

TMUs

192

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

384

84

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

DG2-512

-

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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