Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Jun 2012
Generation
Xe Graphics
Southern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
6144
2048
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
96
32
L2 Cache
8 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Tahiti
Architecture
Generation 12.5
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Board Design
TDP
350W
300W
Suggested PSU
750 W
700 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.