RTX A500 vs Arc Pro A40

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated312
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.06
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128GA107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 August 2022 (2 years ago)10 November 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10242048
Core clock speed1500 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate108.8113.3
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS7.25 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Cores816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s112.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2022 10 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 60 Watt

Arc Pro A40 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc Pro A40 and RTX A500. We've got no test results to judge.


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