Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A550M and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 2.5x more boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 825 MHz
  • 13252.5x more texture fill rate: 262.4 GTexel/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
  • 5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
  • 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
  • 7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 48533 vs 6925
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 9 January 2014
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed 2050 MHz vs 825 MHz
Texture fill rate 262.4 GTexel/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 48533 vs 6925

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 A265

  • Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
48533
6925
Name Intel Arc A550M AMD Radeon R7 A265
Geekbench - OpenCL 48533 6925
PassMark - G3D Mark 994
PassMark - G2D Mark 468

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc A550M AMD Radeon R7 A265

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 1.0
Code name DG2-512 Opal
Launch date 2022 9 January 2014
Place in performance rating 441 458
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2050 MHz 825 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 725 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 384
Pixel fill rate 131.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 262.4 GTexel/s 19.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 21700 million 1,040 million
Floating-point performance 633.6 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 x8

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3