Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile vs RTX A4000 Max-Q

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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
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameGA104Meteor Lake GT1
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)14 December 2023 (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 cores5120384
Core clock speed780 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1395 MHz1800 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate223.243.20
Floating-point processing power14.28 TFLOPS1.382 TFLOPS
ROPs808
TMUs16024
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no data

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 x16Ring Bus
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/sno data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 28 Watt

RTX A4000 Max-Q has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A4000 Max-Q and Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A4000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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