Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1777MHz vs 1700MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +265%

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2021

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

8

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

GA106

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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