Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2022
Jan 2013
Generation
Alchemist
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1792
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
32
32
RT Cores
8
—
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
28
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-128
Tahiti
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
Generation 12.7
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
157 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
50W
200W
Suggested PSU
250 W
550 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.