Arc A550M vs GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1038MHz vs 900MHz)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A550M
+38%
3686
GeForce GTX 970M
2657
3DMark Time Spy
Arc A550M
+130%
5235
GeForce GTX 970M
2274
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Arc A550M
+124%
2347
GeForce GTX 970M
1044
Blender
Arc A550M
+288%
809
GeForce GTX 970M
208
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2014
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
924 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
2048
Shading Units
1280
128
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
48
16
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
115.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
7.373 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.686 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GM204
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
