AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs Intel Arc A350

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Intel Arc A350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A350 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +83%

5.632 TFLOPS

Arc A350

3.072 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Arc A350

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 3)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

48.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

96.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.144 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.072 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

768.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

25W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

DG2-128

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

157 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

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