Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A50 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 Pro A50 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2350MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A50

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +17%

5.632 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A50

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

2350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1024

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

150.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

9.626 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1203 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Hawaii

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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