AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs Intel Arc A310

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 X2 's Advantages

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

352 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Arc A310 +33%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

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

-

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

DG2-128

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

30W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

-

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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