Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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Intel Arc Pro A40 AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1700MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40 +83%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Mar 2015

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Pitcairn

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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