AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1700MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40 +4%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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