AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs Intel Arc A550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M 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 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +130%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

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

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

DG2-512

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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