Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A40 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 999 MHz
Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1328 MHz
2048.2x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel/s vs 53.12 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33073 vs 14675

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 3 January 2018
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 999 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1328 MHz
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s vs 53.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	33073 vs 14675

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

3.5x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	7008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A40
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

33073

14675

Name	Intel Arc Pro A40	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	33073	14675
PassMark - G3D Mark		4070
PassMark - G2D Mark		288
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2076

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A40	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Pascal
Code name	DG2-128	GP107
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	3 January 2018
Place in performance rating	698	699
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	1328 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	999 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	640
Pixel fill rate	54.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s	53.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	3,300 million
Floating-point performance		1,700 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	7008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0