Arc Pro A40 vs Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking371not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.94no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameVega Kaby Lake-GDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2018 (6 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 cores12801024
Core clock speed931 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1011 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data108.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.482 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 Connectorsno data4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 8 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 50 Watt

Arc Pro A40 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 30% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 is a notebook card while Arc Pro A40 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870
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