AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs Intel Arc A550M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Intel Arc A550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +123%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Arc A550M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Solar System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

DG2-512

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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