AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs Intel Arc A580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Oct 2023
Generation
London
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
3072
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
384
RT Cores
-
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
24.58 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
DG2-512
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
ACM-G10
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
21.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
406 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
175W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6