Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2014
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
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
512bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
345.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
2816
TMUs
256
176
ROPs
128
64
L2 Cache
8 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Hawaii
Architecture
Generation 12.5
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
438 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Board Design
TDP
500W
580W
Suggested PSU
900 W
950 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
4x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.