AMD Radeon R9 290X vs Intel Arc A780
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM Arc A780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A780 's Advantages
Boost Clock2200MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5.632 TFLOPS
Arc A780
+219%
18.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2200 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1093 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
559.6GB/s
Render Config
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
281.6 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
563.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
36.04 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.02 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.253 TFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
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
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
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
