Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1700MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40 +7%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

GK104

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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