Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A50 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A50 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 154% (2350MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A50 +45%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A50

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2350 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

150.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

9.626 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

1203 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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