AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs Intel Arc A380M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Intel Arc A380M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 6GB VRAM Arc A380M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A380M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2000MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Arc A380M +77%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Arc A380M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2023

Solar System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.1)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1550 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

DG2-128

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 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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