AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Arc A770

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

Intel Arc A770

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM Arc A770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Intel Arc A770 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 157% (2400MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Arc A770 +487%

19.66 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

Arc A770 +580%

13664

Radeon R9 280

VS

Arc A770

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 7)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2100 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

32

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

307.2 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

614.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

39.32 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.66 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.458 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-512

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

406 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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