AMD FirePro W6170M vs Intel Arc A550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M 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 5 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +87%

3.686 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

DG2-512

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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