Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A550M and AMD Radeon HD 8830M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Arc A550M

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 57% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 575 MHz
3.6x more boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 575 MHz
10496x more texture fill rate: 262.4 GTexel/s vs 25 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	2022 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	262.4 GTexel/s vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Name	Intel Arc A550M	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
Geekbench - OpenCL	48667
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		11302

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A550M	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 1.0
Code name	DG2-512	Venus
Launch date	2022	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	441	443
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz	575 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	16.79 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.397 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	640
Pixel fill rate	131.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	262.4 GTexel/s	25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt
Transistor count	21700 million	1,500 million
Compute units		10
Floating-point performance		800.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Shared memory		0