AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +354%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3072

96

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

DG2-512

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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