RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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 rated29
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.62
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128AD104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 August 2022 (2 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year 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 cores10246144
Core clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2175 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate108.8417.6
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS26.73 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs64192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Cores848

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 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 GB20 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit160 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s360.0 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 2.04x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2022 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 20 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 130 Watt

Arc Pro A40 has 160% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Arc Pro A40 and RTX 4000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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