Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Arc A310 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Arc A310

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Xe HPG (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Alchemist

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2012

September 2022

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

2000 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,301 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

6

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

75 Watt (40 - 75 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

134.4

64.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

15500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

124.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 Ultimate (12_2)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

-

1.3

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-