Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A550M and AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • 6.7x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 400 Watt
Launch date 2022 vs 3 Aug 2021
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 400 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

  • 2x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 2075 MHz vs 2050 MHz
  • Around 90% higher texture fill rate: 498.0 GTexel/s vs 262.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 123773 vs 49562
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 2075 MHz vs 2050 MHz
Texture fill rate 498.0 GTexel/s vs 262.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 123773 vs 49562

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
49562
123773
Name Intel Arc A550M AMD Radeon Pro W6800X
Geekbench - OpenCL 49562 123773
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc A550M AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 RDNA 2.0
Code name DG2-512 Navi 21
Launch date 2022 3 Aug 2021
Place in performance rating 432 429
Type Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2050 MHz 2075 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 16.79 TFLOPS (2:1) 31.87 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.397 TFLOPS 15.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 3840
Pixel fill rate 131.2 GPixel/s 199.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 262.4 GTexel/s 498.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 400 Watt
Transistor count 21700 million 26800 million
Compute units 60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 996.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width Quad-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6