Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA 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

Intel Arc Pro A40 's 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%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

GeForce GTX 950

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

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

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