AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Intel Arc A310

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (1750MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +11%

2.995 TFLOPS

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Oct 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1750 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-128

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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