AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Intel Arc Pro A30M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Aug 2022
Generation
Sea Islands
Alchemist
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
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1500 MHz
Boost Clock
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2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
64bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
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8
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
DG2-128
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
ACM-G11
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
157 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
50W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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
Benchmark
Blender
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