Arc A550M vs Radeon HD 8950M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A550M
+123%
3686
Radeon HD 8950M
1651
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
May 2013
Alchemist
Generation
Solar System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
900 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
2048
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
16
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
115.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
7.373 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.686 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Saturn
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Generation 12.7
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
