Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2022
May 2013
Generation
Alchemist
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
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Boost Clock
1700 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
768
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
16
RT Cores
8
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L2 Cache
4 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-128
Saturn
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Saturn XT
Architecture
Generation 12.7
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
157 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
50W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.