AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs Intel Arc A350

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 Intel Arc A350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A350 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A350 +13%

3.072 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Arc A350

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

48.00 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

96.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.144 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.072 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

768.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

DG2-128

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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