Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

Intel Arc A310

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

Radeon HD 6970

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

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

768

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Cayman

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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