AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs Intel Arc A310

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Intel Arc A310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1750MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +23%

3.315 TFLOPS

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1750 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-128

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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