Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 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
1250 MHz
Base Clock
—
827 MHz
Boost Clock
—
933 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
1792
TMUs
256
112
ROPs
128
32
L2 Cache
8 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
28
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Tahiti
Architecture
Generation 12.5
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Board Design
TDP
500W
200W
Suggested PSU
900 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.