Intel Arc Pro A60 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

Intel Arc Pro A60

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc Pro A60 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A60 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 120% (2050MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A60 +151%

8.397 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A60

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2023

Release Date

Mar 2014

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

2050 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

256

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

131.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

262.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

16.79 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.397 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

269 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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