Product Compare

Intel Arc Pro B60 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GPU GPU
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 2000 MHz
Boost Clock 2400 MHz
Memory Clock 2375 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 24GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 384bit
Bandwidth 456.0GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 128
ROPs 16 32
RT Cores 20
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 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) 3.072 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 200W 250W
Suggested PSU 550 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