Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc Pro A40
+1713%
3.482 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2022
Release Date
Dec 2008
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
1024
Shading Units
64
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
8
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
54.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
108.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
6.963 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.482 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
870.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
G94
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
65 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
157 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
