Arc Pro A40 vs Quadro FX 2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameNV30DG2-128
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 January 2003 (21 year 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed400 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors125 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200108.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2003 8 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 6 nm

Arc Pro A40 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 2000 and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.


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