AMD Radeon RX 550X vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (2000MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +914%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2023

Polaris

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3072

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

DG2-512

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

103 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

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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