Intel Arc B770 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU Specs Compare

G

Intel Arc B770

Intel 2026-01
G

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD 2013-05

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2026
May 2013
Generation
Battlemage
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2100 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
153.6GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
4096
1280
TMUs
256
80
ROPs
128
32
RT Cores
32
-
L2 Cache
16 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
L1 Cache
-
16 KB (per CU)

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
307.2 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
614.4 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
39.32 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.66 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.458 TFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
BMG-G31
Neptune
Architecture
Xe2-HPG
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
2.8 billion
Die Size
Unknown
212 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Neptune XT(216-0847000)

Board Design

TDP
225W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
No outputs
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
1.4
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
5.1