AMD FirePro D500 vs Intel Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A40
+56%
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Aug 2022
FirePro
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1500 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
96bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1024
96
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
DG2-128
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
