Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD FirePro D300

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A40 and AMD FirePro D300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD FirePro D300

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 76% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 850 MHz
1600x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel/s vs 68 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 67% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33127 vs 19872

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 18 January 2014
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s vs 68 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127 vs 19872

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro D300

Around 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5080 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Pipelines	1280 vs 1024
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A40
GPU 2: AMD FirePro D300

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

33127

19872

Name	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD FirePro D300
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127	19872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		51.183
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1192.547
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		78.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		242.179
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD FirePro D300
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 1.0
Code name	DG2-128	Pitcairn
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	18 January 2014
Place in performance rating	663	660
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	870.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.963 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.482 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	1280
Pixel fill rate	54.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s	68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,176 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Length		242 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	162.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	5080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5