Intel Arc A380 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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Intel Arc A380 AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc A380 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A380 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 105% (2050MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A380 +2%

4.198 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A380 +82%

4280

Radeon R9 280X

2343

Arc A380

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jun 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2050 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

186.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

128

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

131.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

8.397 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.198 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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