Arc Pro A30M 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 rated350
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.85
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameDG2-128DG2-128
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date8 August 2022 (2 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 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 cores10241024
Core clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate108.8128.0
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS4.096 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Ray Tracing Cores88

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-slotno data
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 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s128.0 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 Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB

Arc Pro A40 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Arc Pro A40 and Arc Pro A30M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc Pro A40 is a workstation card while Arc Pro A30M is a mobile workstation one.


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