AMD Radeon R9 270X vs Intel Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 270X 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1700MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270X
2.688 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A40
+29%
3.482 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 270X
1769
Arc Pro A40
+88%
3328
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Aug 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1050 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
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
1024
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
168.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Curacao
GPU Name
DG2-128
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
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
