Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 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 Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40 +28%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Dec 2010

Alchemist

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 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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