Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1700MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +67%

5.834 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

Alchemist

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Ellesmere

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

6 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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