Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

Intel Arc A310 AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +19%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2010

Alchemist

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

768

Shading Units

1408

32

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Cayman

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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