Intel Arc Pro B50 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2025
Oct 2010
Generation
Battlemage
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
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Boost Clock
2600 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1120
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
16
32
RT Cores
16
—
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
14
L1 Cache
—
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
41.60 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
332.8 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.30 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
10.65 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.662 TFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
BMG-G21
Barts
Architecture
Xe2
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
40 nm
Transistors
19.6 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
272 mm²
255 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Board Design
TDP
70W
151W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.