AMD Radeon R9 280X vs Intel Arc Pro A50

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

Intel Arc Pro A50

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A50 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 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A50 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 135% (2350MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A50 +17%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Arc Pro A50

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2350 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

150.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.626 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1203 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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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