Intel Arc Pro A40
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Intel Arc Pro A40 has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.00 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.09 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has 16384 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.52 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 82.58 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Intel Arc Pro A40 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Alchemist architecture, which has 128 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and is equipped with 128 execution units.
Intel Arc Pro A40 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Intel Arc Pro A40 Graphics Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
ACM-G11 GPU Chip AD102-300-A1
Alchemist Architecture Ada Lovelace
128 Streaming Multiprocessors 128
1024 Shader 16384
32 Render Output Units 176
64 Texture Units 512
8 Raytracing Cores 128

Memory

The Intel Arc Pro A40 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.313GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1008 GB/s
96 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The Intel Arc Pro A40 has a turbo clock of 2.000 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 2.520 GHz.

2.000 GHz Base Clock 2.235 GHz
2.000 GHz Boost Clock 2.520 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Intel Arc Pro A40 has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as Unknown.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

50 W TDP 450 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 90 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Intel Arc Pro A40 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

The Intel Arc Pro A40 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
4x DP v2.0 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Intel Arc Pro A40 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode
No VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Intel Arc Pro A40 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 304 mm
-- Height 137 mm
-- Width 61 mm
-- Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 6 nanometer process, Intel Arc Pro A40 was released in Q3/2022.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition published in Q4/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2022 Release date Q4/2022
-- Launch Price 1,599 $ (Reference)
6 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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