GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

i

Intel

GPU

Arc A380

CORE STATE DG2-128

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2050 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 96 bit

ARCHITECTURE Xe-HPG

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

38,224

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

808

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

36,736

passmark_directx_10

N/A

37

passmark_directx_11

N/A

38

passmark_directx_12

N/A

35

passmark_directx_9

N/A

73

passmark_g2d

N/A

610

passmark_g3d

N/A

6,252

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,762

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

A380

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

Shaders

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

TMUs

128

64 -50.0%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

32

—

Execution Units

—

128

Clocks

Base Clock

—

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2050 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1937 MHz 15.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

6,144 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

96 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

186.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

768 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

65.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

131.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

4.198 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1,049.6 GFLOPS (1:4)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

8.397 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

8

XMX Cores

—

128

Power

TDP

250 W

75 W

TDP (W)

250

75 -70.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Xe-HPG

GPU Name

Tahiti

DG2-128

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Alchemist (Arc 3)

Process Size

28 nm

6 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

7,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

157 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

45.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.6

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

222 mm 8.7 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

114 mm 4.5 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

149 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Xe Graphics

Successor

Sea Islands

Battlemage

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