AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs Intel Arc A310

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition Intel Arc A310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +1%

2.72 TFLOPS

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

DG2-128

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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