Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Intel Arc B570

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 Jan 2025
Generation Sea Islands Battlemage
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2375 MHz
Base Clock 2500 MHz
Boost Clock 2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 10GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 160bit
Bandwidth 264.0GB/s 380.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32
Shading Units 2048 2304
TMUs 128 144
ROPs 32 80
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 256 KB (per EU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 18 MB
Tensor Cores 144
RT Cores 18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 200.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 118.4 GTexel/s 360.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.789 TFLOPS 11.52 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 947.2 GFLOPS 1440 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti BMG-G21
GPU Variant Tahiti XT(215-0821060) SRPMG
Architecture GCN 1.0 Xe2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 5 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 19.6 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 272 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 150W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 1.4
Shader Model 5.1 6.6