Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A50 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 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 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 153% (2350MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A50 +405%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A50

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2350 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

150.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

9.626 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.813 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

1203 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Cape Verde

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 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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