AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Arc A380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc A380 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 120% (2050MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3.344 TFLOPS
Arc A380
+25%
4.198 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
Arc A380
+112%
4277
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2050 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
96bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
186.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1792
Shading Units
1024
112
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.60 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.2 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
8.397 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.198 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1050 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
DG2-128
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
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
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
