AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel Arc Pro A60

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM Arc Pro A60 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A60 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 120% (2050MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A60 +151%

8.397 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Arc Pro A60

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2050 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

131.2 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

262.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.79 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.397 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

DG2-256

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

11.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

269 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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