Arc A780 vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking766not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.01no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3844096
Core clock speedno data2200 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data563.2
Floating-point processing powerno data18.02 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data256
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1093 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data559.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 200 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has 1233.3% lower power consumption.

Arc A780, on the other hand, has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Arc A780. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Arc A780 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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Intel Arc A780
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