Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A40 and AMD Radeon HD 6970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc Pro A40

AMD Radeon HD 6970

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 93% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 880 MHz
1287.6x more texture fill rate: 108.8 GTexel/s vs 84.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 40 nm
11x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 550 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1375 MHz

Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 14 December 2010
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 880 MHz
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s vs 84.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 550 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1375 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 35739 vs 33127

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1536 vs 1024
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	35739 vs 33127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

33127

35739

Name	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD Radeon HD 6970
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127	35739
PassMark - G3D Mark		2839
PassMark - G2D Mark		432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		920.398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		52.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		273.175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A40	AMD Radeon HD 6970
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	TeraScale 3
Code name	DG2-128	Cayman
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	14 December 2010
Place in performance rating	663	662
Design		AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$369
Price now		$94.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		48.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	880 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	870.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.963 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.482 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	1536
Pixel fill rate	54.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	108.8 GTexel/s	84.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	550 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	2,640 million
Floating-point performance		2,703.4 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1375 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire