Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +8%

3.789 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x 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

Tahiti

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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