GPU Comparison

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Intel

GPU

Intel Arc A550M

CORE STATE DG2-512

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2050 MHz

TDP 60 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Xe-HPG

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE —

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

49,894

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

49,580

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

A550M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

2,048 0.0%

Shaders

2,048

2,048 0.0%

TMUs

128

128 0.0%

ROPs

64

64 0.0%

Execution Units

256

—

Clocks

Base Clock

900 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2050 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

131.2 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

262.4 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.397 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

16.79 TFLOPS (2:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

16

—

XMX Cores

256

—

Power

TDP

60 W

165 W

TDP (W)

60

165 +175.0%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Xe-HPG

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

DG2-512

GM204

Generation

Alchemist (Arc 5 Mobile)

GeForce 900

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

21,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

406 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

53.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.6

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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