Intel Arc Pro A30M vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX Comparison

The Verdict

The benchmark data presents a striking paradox: the Intel Arc Pro A30M and NVIDIA TITAN RTX sit virtually side-by-side in the aggregate rankings, yet their single head-to-head result reveals a chasm in raw performance. The Intel Arc Pro A30M holds a 75th percentile position among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 31,894. The NVIDIA TITAN RTX also sits at the 75th percentile, with an average score of 31,676. These aggregate scores are nearly identical, differing by only 0.7% — yet the Geekbench OpenCL test tells a completely different story.

The TITAN RTX delivers 148,755 in Geekbench OpenCL, while the Arc Pro A30M scores 31,894 — a 78.6% deficit for the Intel part. This is not a close contest; it is a rout. The verdict from the data is unambiguous: for any workload that stresses OpenCL compute, the TITAN RTX is the overwhelming choice. The Arc Pro A30M's comparable aggregate score appears to stem from its placement within a cluster of mid-range workstation parts, including the AMD Radeon Pro 570X (31,682) and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (31,401), rather than from any genuine parity with the TITAN RTX. The TITAN RTX's nearest rivals in its own ranking include the same AMD Radeon Pro 570X at a 0% delta and the Quadro RTX 8000 at 0.9% — but the Arc Pro A30M trails the TITAN by 0.7% in aggregate while losing the actual compute benchmark by nearly 80 points on a percentage scale. The conclusion is that aggregate scores can mislead; the specific workload benchmark is the definitive measure.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gulf between these two GPUs explains the benchmark disparity. The Intel Arc Pro A30M uses the DG2-128 chip built on the Xe-HPG architecture, part of the Alchemist generation for professional mobile use. It is fabricated on TSMC's 6 nm process, packing 7,200 million transistors into a 157 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 45.9 million per square millimeter. The NVIDIA TITAN RTX, by contrast, uses the TU102 chip on the older Turing architecture, from the GeForce 20 generation. It is built on a 12 nm process at the same foundry, TSMC, but houses 18,600 million transistors across a massive 754 mm² die — a transistor density of just 24.7 million per square millimeter. The Intel part achieves nearly double the transistor density, but the NVIDIA chip deploys more than 2.5 times the total transistor count.

Core configurations diverge sharply. The Arc Pro A30M has 1,024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, and 8 ray tracing cores. The TITAN RTX fields 4,608 shading units, 288 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and 72 RT cores — 4.5 times the shading units and 9 times the RT cores. The TITAN RTX also includes 576 tensor cores, a feature entirely absent from the Arc Pro A30M's specification sheet. Clock speeds tell a different story: the Intel part runs at a 1,500 MHz base and 2,000 MHz boost, while the TITAN RTX sits lower at 1,350 MHz base and 1,770 MHz boost. The Intel chip's higher clocks and smaller die suggest efficiency, but the NVIDIA part's sheer scale overwhelms that advantage in throughput.

Memory subsystems are equally lopsided. The Arc Pro A30M carries 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, delivering 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The TITAN RTX has 24 GB of GDDR6 on a 384-bit bus, with 672.0 GB/s — 5.25 times the bandwidth and 6 times the capacity. The TITAN RTX's memory clock is 1,750 MHz (14 Gbps effective), while the Arc Pro A30M runs at 2,000 MHz (16 Gbps effective), showing that the Intel part's faster memory clock cannot compensate for its narrow bus. The TITAN RTX also draws 280 W versus the Arc Pro A30M's 50 W TDP, and requires a dual-slot cooler with 2x 8-pin power connectors and a 600 W suggested PSU, whereas the Intel part has no power connectors and is portable-device dependent.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The only direct benchmark comparison available is Geekbench OpenCL, and it is decisive. The NVIDIA TITAN RTX scores 148,755, while the Intel Arc Pro A30M scores 31,894. The delta is -78.6% for the Intel part, meaning the TITAN RTX outperforms it by a factor of roughly 4.66. This is not a marginal win; it is a generational and architectural stomping. The TITAN RTX's score reflects its 4,608 shading units, 576 tensor cores, and 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth, all working in concert on a 12 nm die that was designed for maximum compute. The Arc Pro A30M's 1,024 shading units and 128 GB/s bandwidth simply cannot compete in a compute-heavy OpenCL workload.

The aggregate scores, however, tell a confusing tale. The Arc Pro A30M's average benchmark score of 31,894 is actually slightly higher than the TITAN RTX's 31,676, and the nearest rival lists show both cards clustered with the AMD Radeon Pro 570X (31,682) and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (31,401). The Arc Pro A30M is 0.7% ahead of the TITAN RTX in aggregate, while the TITAN RTX is 0.7% behind the Arc Pro in its own listing. This inversion suggests that the aggregate score is dominated by different benchmark suites, or that the Arc Pro A30M's single OpenCL result is being weighted differently in the overall calculation. The head-to-head data, which is the only apples-to-apples comparison, leaves no room for ambiguity: the TITAN RTX wins the only direct contest by 78.6%.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has the higher aggregate benchmark score?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M has a marginally higher average benchmark score of 31,894, compared to the NVIDIA TITAN RTX's 31,676 — a difference of 0.7% in Intel's favor.

Q: What is the actual performance gap in the head-to-head test?

A: In the Geekbench OpenCL test, the NVIDIA TITAN RTX scores 148,755 versus the Intel Arc Pro A30M's 31,894, giving the TITAN RTX a 78.6% advantage.

Q: How do the memory configurations compare?

A: The TITAN RTX has 24 GB of GDDR6 on a 384-bit bus with 672.0 GB/s bandwidth, while the Arc Pro A30M has 4 GB on a 64-bit bus with 128.0 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Which card has more shading units?

A: The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has 4,608 shading units, while the Intel Arc Pro A30M has 1,024 — a 4.5x difference in the NVIDIA part's favor.

Q: Are both cards still in production?

A: No, both are marked as end-of-life in the data, with the Arc Pro A30M released on 2022-08-07 and the TITAN RTX released on 2018-12-17.

Q: What is the transistor density difference?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M achieves 45.9 million transistors per square millimeter on a 6 nm process, while the TITAN RTX has 24.7 million per square millimeter on a 12 nm process.

Where Each One Wins

The NVIDIA TITAN RTX wins the only direct benchmark, and it wins by an enormous margin. In Geekbench OpenCL, the TITAN RTX's 148,755 score versus the Arc Pro A30M's 31,894 means that any compute-heavy professional workload — rendering, simulation, machine learning inference, or scientific computation — will favor the TITAN RTX overwhelmingly. Its 24 GB of memory and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth make it suitable for large datasets that would exhaust the Arc Pro A30M's 4 GB frame buffer. The TITAN RTX also has 576 tensor cores, which the Arc Pro A30M lacks entirely, suggesting that AI and deep learning tasks are exclusively the NVIDIA card's domain. The TITAN RTX's 72 RT cores versus the Arc Pro's 8 further indicate superiority in ray-traced workloads.

The Intel Arc Pro A30M's wins are more subtle and are inferred from the specification data rather than demonstrated in benchmark wins. It has a significantly lower TDP of 50 W versus 280 W, making it suitable for portable devices where power draw and thermal output are constrained. Its 6 nm process and higher transistor density (45.9M per mm² versus 24.7M per mm²) suggest better power efficiency per transistor. The Arc Pro A30M also boosts to 2,000 MHz versus the TITAN RTX's 1,770 MHz, and its memory runs at 16 Gbps effective versus 14 Gbps, indicating that in lightly-threaded or memory-latency-sensitive tasks, the Intel part could be responsive. Its PCIe 4.0 x8 interface is newer than the TITAN RTX's PCIe 3.0 x16, potentially offering higher per-lane bandwidth. However, the data shows zero benchmark wins for the Arc Pro A30M in head-to-head competition.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs diverge in nearly every measurable specification. The process node differs: Intel uses 6 nm, NVIDIA uses 12 nm, both at TSMC. Transistor counts are 7,200 million for Intel and 18,600 million for NVIDIA, with die sizes of 157 mm² and 754 mm² respectively. Transistor density is 45.9M per mm² for Intel versus 24.7M per mm² for NVIDIA. Base clocks are 1,500 MHz (Intel) and 1,350 MHz (NVIDIA), while boost clocks are 2,000 MHz and 1,770 MHz. Memory clock is 2,000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) for Intel and 1,750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) for NVIDIA.

Memory capacity is 4 GB versus 24 GB, both GDDR6, but bus widths are 64-bit and 384-bit, yielding bandwidths of 128.0 GB/s and 672.0 GB/s. Shading units are 1,024 versus 4,608; TMUs are 64 versus 288; ROPs are 32 versus 96; RT cores are 8 versus 72. The TITAN RTX has 576 tensor cores; the Arc Pro A30M has none. Pixel rates are 64.00 GPixel/s for Intel and 169.9 GPixel/s for NVIDIA. Texture rates are 128.0 GTexel/s and 509.8 GTexel/s. FP32 compute is 4.096 TFLOPS versus 16.31 TFLOPS; FP16 is 8.192 TFLOPS versus 32.62 TFLOPS, both at 2:1 ratios.

TDP is 50 W for Intel and 280 W for NVIDIA. The TITAN RTX is dual-slot, measures 267 mm by 116 mm by 35 mm, and requires 2x 8-pin connectors with a 600 W suggested PSU. The Arc Pro A30M has no power connectors and its dimensions are listed as portable device dependent. Bus interfaces are PCIe 4.0 x8 (Intel) and PCIe 3.0 x16 (NVIDIA). Display outputs are portable device dependent for Intel, while the TITAN RTX offers 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, and 1x USB Type-C. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The TITAN RTX has a launch MSRP of 2,499 USD; the Arc Pro A30M has no listed launch MSRP. Release dates are 2022-08-07 for Intel and 2018-12-17 for NVIDIA, with the TITAN RTX having a predecessor (GeForce 10) and successor (GeForce 30) in its lineage.