AMD Radeon R9 290 vs Intel Arc Pro A60

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 12GB VRAM Arc Pro A60 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc Pro A60 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2050MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A60 +73%

8.397 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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Arc Pro A60

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2050 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

131.2 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

262.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.79 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.397 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

DG2-256

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

11.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

269 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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