Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2013
Generation
Data Center GPU
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
1024MB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
1600
TMUs
256
80
ROPs
128
32
L2 Cache
8 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
L1 Cache
—
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Cypress
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
40 nm
Transistors
8 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
334 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Board Design
TDP
500W
175W
Suggested PSU
900 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.