AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +224%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970

2279

Arc A580 +377%

10889

Radeon HD 7970

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Oct 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-512

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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