AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (975MHz vs 900MHz)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+84%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Crystal System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
DG2-512
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
