Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Unknown
Generation
Data Center GPU
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
950 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
2048
TMUs
256
128
ROPs
128
32
L2 Cache
8 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
1024 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 XTL(215-0821065)
Board Design
TDP
500W
375W
Suggested PSU
900 W
750 W
Outputs
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
3x 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
6.6
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.