AMD Radeon R9 270 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 R9 270 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1700MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40 +47%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

DG2-128

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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