Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Intel Arc A550M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 Jan 2022
Generation Sea Islands Alchemist
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 300 MHz
Boost Clock 900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 264.0GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32
Shading Units 2048 2048
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 8 MB
RT Cores 16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 118.4 GTexel/s 115.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.789 TFLOPS 3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 947.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 7.373 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti DG2-512
GPU Variant Tahiti XT(215-0821060) ACM-G10
Architecture GCN 1.0 Generation 12.7
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 21.7 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 406 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 60W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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