Intel Arc Pro A40 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40 +559%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2008

Alchemist

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

R680

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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