Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Intel Arc A310

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1750MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +23%

3.315 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

768

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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