Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A40 and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1340 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
3.7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Around 77% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 108.8 GTexel/s
2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 108.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Name	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	33073
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3510

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 4.0
Code name	DG2-128	Polaris 20
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	689	691
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$301.69
Price now		$169.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	14 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	2304
Pixel fill rate	54.40 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready