Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2022
Jan 2012
Generation
Alchemist
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2000 MHz
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Boost Clock
2350 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
RT Cores
8
—
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
75.20 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
150.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.626 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.813 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1203 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-128
Tahiti
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Generation 12.7
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
157 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
250W
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
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
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.6
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,209
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.