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Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2023 Aug 2012
Generation Alchemist(Arc 5) Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2000 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 512.0GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 3072 2048
TMUs 192 128
ROPs 96 32
Tensor Cores 384
RT Cores 24
L2 Cache 8 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 192.0 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 384.0 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 24.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 12.29 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1.536 TFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name DG2-512 New Zealand
GPU Variant ACM-G10
Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 6 nm 28 nm
Transistors 21.7 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 406 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 500W
Suggested PSU 450 W 900 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 3x 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