Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A550M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (975MHz vs 900MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M +84%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2014

Alchemist

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Pitcairn

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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