Intel Arc Pro B50 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2025
Jan 2013
Generation
Battlemage
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2600 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
16
32
RT Cores
16
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
L1 Cache
-
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
41.60 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
332.8 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.30 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
10.65 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.662 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
BMG-G21
Tahiti
Architecture
Xe2
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
19.6 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
272 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Board Design
TDP
70W
250W
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
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