AMD Radeon RX 480 vs Intel Arc A780

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

Intel Arc A780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 16GB VRAM Arc A780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2200MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Arc A780 +208%

18.02 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Arc A780

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Unknown

Arctic Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 7)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

2200 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2200 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1093 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

559.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

32

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

281.6 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

563.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

36.04 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.02 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.253 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

DG2-512

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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