AMD Radeon R9 290X vs Intel Arc A770

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X Intel Arc A770

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM Arc A770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A770 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Arc A770 +249%

19.66 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3929

Arc A770 +247%

13660

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Arc A770

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

32

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

307.2 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

614.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

39.32 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.66 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

DG2-512

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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