AMD Radeon R9 280X vs Intel Arc A310

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

Intel Arc A310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1750MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +52%

4.096 TFLOPS

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1750 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x 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 XTL (215-0821065)

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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