AMD Radeon R9 280X vs Intel Arc A350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc A350 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 100% (2000MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+33%
4.096 TFLOPS
Arc A350
3.072 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280X
2348
Arc A350
+37%
3239
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
124.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
6
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
48.00 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.144 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.072 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
768.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
25W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
DG2-128
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
