NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (967MHz vs 900MHz)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 870M
2.599 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+41%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 800M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
941 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
967 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
120.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1344
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
24
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
2.599 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
108.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
DG2-512
N15E-GT-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
