Intel Arc A780 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

Intel Arc A780

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock2200MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A780 +219%

18.02 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Arc A780

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

Alchemist(Arc 7)

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

-

2200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1093 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

559.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

4096

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

128

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

281.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

563.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

36.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Hawaii

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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