Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A310 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1750MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (30W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A310
2.688 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
+52%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Unknown
Alchemist
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1937 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
124.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
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
32.00 GPixel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
5.376 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
672.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
Tahiti
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
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
