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Intel Arc A350 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2022 Jan 2013
Generation Alchemist(Arc 3) Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 2000 MHz
Boost Clock 2000 MHz
Memory Clock 1937 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 64bit 384bit
Bandwidth 124.0GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 768 2048
TMUs 48 128
ROPs 24 32
Tensor Cores 96
RT Cores 6
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 48.00 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 96.00 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 6.144 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 3.072 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 768.0 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name DG2-128 Tahiti
GPU Variant ACM-G11 Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 6 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 157 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 25W 250W
Suggested PSU 200 W 600 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
Shader Model 6.6 5.1