AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 X2 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40 +28%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

DG2-128

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

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

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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