AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40 +28%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 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

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

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CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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