NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1700MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +43%

4.981 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG2-128

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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