AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +8%

3.789 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

50W

900 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

New Zealand

GPU Name

DG2-128

-

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

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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