AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1000MHz vs 900MHz)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M280X
1.792 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+105%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2015
Release Date
Jan 2022
Gem System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
88.00GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
2048
56
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
112.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
60W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Saturn
GPU Name
DG2-512
Saturn XT
(216-0843024)
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
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.6
