AMD Radeon 550 vs Intel Arc A380

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and Intel Arc A380 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon 550

Intel Arc A380

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A380

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 73% higher boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3.5x more texture fill rate: 131.2 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 454
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6232 vs 1885

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 Jun 2022 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	131.2 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
Pipelines	1024 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	609 vs 454
PassMark - G3D Mark	6232 vs 1885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: Intel Arc A380

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

454

609

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1885

6232

Name	AMD Radeon 550	Intel Arc A380
PassMark - G2D Mark	454	609
PassMark - G3D Mark	1885	6232
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4286
Geekbench - OpenCL		36919

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	Intel Arc A380
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Generation 12.7
Code name	Lexa	DG2-128
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	14 Jun 2022
Place in performance rating	285	256
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	2050 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)	8.397 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS	4.198 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1024
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	65.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	131.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	7200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	222 mm, 8.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Height		42 mm, 1.7 inches
Width		114 mm, 4.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	186.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	96 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6