AMD Radeon R9 290 vs Intel Arc B570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 10GB VRAM Arc B570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc B570 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2500MHz
More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (380.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
Arc B570
+137%
11.52 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
Arc B570
+241%
12600
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Jan 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2500 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2500 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
10GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
160bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
380.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
2304
160
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
18
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
18 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.0 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.52 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1440 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
BMG-G21
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
SRPMG
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
272 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
