AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs Intel Arc A550M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Intel Arc A550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (900MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +271%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Solar System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

DG2-512

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.6

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