NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1038MHz vs 900MHz)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970M
2.657 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+38%
3.686 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970M
2274
Arc A550M
+130%
5235
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970M
1044
Arc A550M
+124%
2347
Blender
GeForce GTX 970M
208
Arc A550M
+288%
809
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
924 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
120.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
60W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-512
N16E-GT-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7 (6.4)
Shader Model
6.6
