Intel Arc A780 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
Aug 2012
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2200 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2200 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1093 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
559.6GB/s
264.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
4096
2048
TMUs
256
128
ROPs
128
32
Tensor Cores
512
-
RT Cores
32
-
L2 Cache
16 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
L1 Cache
-
16 KB (per CU)

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
281.6 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
563.2 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
36.04 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
18.02 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.253 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
DG2-512
New Zealand
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
-
Architecture
Generation 12.7
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
406 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
500W
Suggested PSU
550 W
900 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
5.1