Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile 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 rated202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.47
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date8 August 2022 (2 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores10242048
Core clock speed1500 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate108.8129.6
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS8.294 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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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
Shared memory--

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 2.0Portable Device Dependent

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 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

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

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc Pro A40 and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc Pro A40 is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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