AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs Intel Arc A770 Comparison

The Intel Arc A770 and the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X occupy very different corners of the GPU landscape, and the recorded data reflects that split. The A770 is Intel's Alchemist-era discrete gaming card, carrying a 90th-percentile average benchmark score of 68809 across the database, while the W5700X is a Mac-focused professional board built on first-generation RDNA, sitting at the 87th percentile with an average score of 54828. Both have 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, both are end-of-life products, and both carry a suggested power supply rating of 550 W, but that is where the similarities largely end. In the two head-to-head benchmarks recorded in the database, the Arc A770 won both, and by wide margins.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Only two tests overlap between these cards in the database, and the Intel card dominated both.

In Geekbench OpenCL, the Arc A770 scored 109175 against 43810 for the Radeon Pro W5700X, a delta of 149.2 percent. That is not a close result: it means the A770 delivered roughly two and a half times the compute throughput of the W5700X in this workload. Geekbench Vulkan tells a similar story, with the A770 posting 94284 versus 45246 for the W5700X, a gap of 108.4 percent. The A770 more than doubles the AMD card's score in both tests.

The raw hardware explains much of this. The A770's FP32 throughput is rated at 19.66 TFLOPS, nearly double the W5700X's 10.44 TFLOPS, and its FP16 figure of 39.32 TFLOPS similarly dwarfs the W5700X's 20.89 TFLOPS. With 4096 shading units against 2560, 256 TMUs against 160, and 128 ROPs against 64, the Intel card simply brings far more parallel machinery to every one of these compute-oriented tests.

The W5700X's database entries include one test the A770 lacks: Geekbench Metal, where it scored 75427. That is a Mac-specific API result and not comparable head-to-head, but it does indicate the card was measured in its native platform context, where its average score places it within striking distance of rivals like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 (54247 average, a 1.1 percent delta) and the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757 average, a -1.7 percent delta). The A770's own neighborhood includes the NVIDIA CMP 90HX at 69000 (-0.3 percent) and the AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 at 68562 (0.4 percent), showing it holds its ground against a mixed field of mining and compute cards.

FAQ

Q: Which card is faster in the shared benchmarks?

A: The Intel Arc A770, decisively. It won both overlapping tests, taking Geekbench OpenCL by 149.2 percent (109175 to 43810) and Geekbench Vulkan by 108.4 percent (94284 to 45246).

Q: Do these cards support ray tracing?

A: Only the Arc A770 does. It has 32 RT cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (feature level 12_2). The W5700X lists no RT cores and supports DirectX 12 at feature level 12_1.

Q: What memory do they share, and where does memory differ?

A: Both use 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus. The A770's memory runs at 16 Gbps effective for 512.0 GB/s of bandwidth, while the W5700X runs at 14 Gbps effective for 448.0 GB/s, a 64 GB/s advantage for Intel.

Q: Which card has the lower power draw?

A: The W5700X, on paper. Its TDP is 205 W against 225 W for the A770, a modest difference, and both cards carry the same 550 W suggested power supply rating.

Q: Are these cards still in production?

A: No. Both are listed as end-of-life. The A770 was released on October 11, 2022 and has a successor, Battlemage. The W5700X was released on December 10, 2019 and lists neither predecessor nor successor.

Q: How do their average scores compare against the full database?

A: The A770 sits in the 90th percentile with an average score of 68809; the W5700X sits in the 87th percentile at 54828. Three percentile points separate them in Intel's favor.

Architecture Differences

These cards come from opposite design philosophies. The Arc A770 uses Intel's Xe-HPG architecture under the Alchemist generation (Arc 7), implemented on the DG2-512 chip. The Radeon Pro W5700X uses AMD's RDNA 1.0 architecture, built on the Navi 10 chip as part of the Radeon Pro Mac line in the Navi series.

Manufacturing is where the generational gap shows most clearly. The A770 was fabbed by TSMC on a 6 nm process, packing 21,700 million transistors into a 406 mm² die for a density of 53.4M transistors per mm². The W5700X, three years older, uses TSMC's 7 nm process with 10,300 million transistors on a 251 mm² die, giving 41.0M per mm². The A770 holds more than double the transistor count and substantially higher density, though its die is also notably larger.

Feature support diverges sharply. The A770 ships with 32 RT cores for hardware ray tracing and targets DirectX 12 Ultimate at feature level 12_2, alongside OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4. The W5700X predates AMD's hardware ray tracing push: it has no RT cores and tops out at DirectX 12 feature level 12_1, with the same OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 support. Both cards list no dedicated tensor cores, so neither carries fixed-function AI acceleration in this data.

The A770 is also the more recent platform in terms of lineage. Its predecessor was Intel's Xe Graphics and its successor is Battlemage, marking it as part of an ongoing architecture family. The W5700X has no listed predecessor or successor, consistent with its role as a one-off professional part for Apple machines.

Specification Differences

The specification gaps mirror the benchmark gaps. The A770 runs a 2100 MHz base clock and boosts to 2400 MHz; the W5700X starts at 1243 MHz and boosts to 2040 MHz. Intel's clock advantage holds across the entire range, base and boost alike.

Compute resources heavily favor the A770: 4096 shading units versus 2560, 256 TMUs versus 160, and 128 ROPs versus 64. That translates directly into throughput figures. The A770 manages 307.2 GPixel/s of pixel rate and 614.4 GTexel/s of texture rate, while the W5700X delivers 130.6 GPixel/s and 326.4 GTexel/s respectively. In every one of these ratios, the Intel card is at or near double the AMD card.

Memory bandwidth also favors Intel: 512.0 GB/s versus 448.0 GB/s, thanks to faster effective memory speeds (16 Gbps versus 14 Gbps) on the same 256-bit bus width and 16 GB capacity.

Physical and platform characteristics differ in ways that matter for deployment. The A770 is a dual-slot card using a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, powered by one 6-pin and one 8-pin connector, with one HDMI 2.1 output and three DisplayPort 2.0 outputs. The W5700X is a quad-slot card on Apple's MPX interface, with no standard power connectors listed, one HDMI 2.0b output, and four Thunderbolt outputs. Its recorded length is 305 mm; the A770 has no recorded dimensions. The W5700X draws 205 W against the A770's 225 W. The A770 carried a launch MSRP of 329 USD, the W5700X a launch MSRP of 999 USD.

Where Each One Wins

The Intel Arc A770 wins everywhere the database can measure directly. Both shared tests, Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan, went to Intel by triple-digit percentage margins, and the underlying spec sheet (double the shading units, ROPs, and TFLOPS, plus higher memory bandwidth) suggests that lead is structural rather than situational. For GPU compute workloads running through OpenCL or Vulkan, for ray tracing work enabled by its 32 RT cores and DirectX 12 Ultimate support, and for anyone needing the newer API feature set, the A770 is the clear pick of these two. Its higher 90th-percentile ranking against the full database population confirms the picture painted by the head-to-head results.

The Radeon Pro W5700X's wins are contextual rather than measurable in these tests. It exists for the Apple MPX platform, with four Thunderbolt outputs and HDMI 2.0b, and its recorded Geekbench Metal score of 75427 shows it operating within its native Mac environment, where its average score keeps it competitive with cards like the RTX 4080 (1.1 percent delta) and the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (-1.6 percent delta). It draws 20 W less at the board level and runs cooler-geometry compute at lower clocks, but its quad-slot footprint and platform lock-in limit where it can be used at all.

For a general benchmark comparison, the verdict is one-sided: the Arc A770's average score of 68809 against 54828, a lead of nearly 14000 points on the database's composite scale, plus two outright head-to-head victories, makes it the stronger performer wherever both cards can actually run the same workload.