Intel Arc A550M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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Intel Arc A550M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M +773%

3.686 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

Alchemist

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16

RT Cores

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

55W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

M88

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

-

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

55 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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