AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Intel Arc A570M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Aug 2023
Generation
Sea Islands
Alchemist
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
900 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1300 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
768 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
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16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
83.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
166.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
5.325 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
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FP16 (half)
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10.65 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
DG2-256
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
ACM-G12
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
250W
75W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.