NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Intel Arc A550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1124MHz vs 900MHz)

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +156%

3.686 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

DG2-512

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Maxwell

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

148 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

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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