Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A40 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 59% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 944 MHz
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 950 MHz
1478.3x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel/s vs 73.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32858 vs 14701

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 9 January 2015
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 944 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 950 MHz
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s vs 73.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	32858 vs 14701

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A40
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

32858

14701

Name	Intel Arc Pro A40	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Geekbench - OpenCL	32858	14701
PassMark - G3D Mark		3775
PassMark - G2D Mark		340
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		720.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		57.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		223.296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1831

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A40	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	DG2-128	GM204
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	9 January 2015
Place in performance rating	711	702
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	950 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	944 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	1024
Pixel fill rate	54.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s	73.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2,355 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI