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Intel Arc A770 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A770 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A770 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2400MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Arc A770 +379%
19.66 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Oct 2022
Release Date
Unknown
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2100 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
2400 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
2048
256
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
512
Tensor Cores
-
32
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

307.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
614.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
39.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
2.458 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W
TDP
375W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512
GPU Name
Tahiti
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)
Generation 12.7
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²

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
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
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