AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Intel Arc A350

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A350 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +23%

3.789 TFLOPS

Arc A350

3.072 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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Arc A350

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

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

48.00 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

96.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.144 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.072 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

768.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-128

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

250W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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