Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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Intel Arc A310 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +5%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Arc A310

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2012

Alchemist

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

768

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Pitcairn

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-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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