Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A550M and AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

Intel Arc A550M

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 834 MHz
2809.1x more texture fill rate: 262.4 GTexel/s vs 93.41 GTexel / s
Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
4.2x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 250 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49562 vs 23546

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 834 MHz
Texture fill rate	262.4 GTexel/s vs 93.41 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	49562 vs 23546

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

3.1x more memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

49562

23546

Name	Intel Arc A550M	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	49562	23546
PassMark - G2D Mark		715
PassMark - G3D Mark		4916
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		336.811

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A550M	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 2.0
Code name	DG2-512	Grenada
Launch date	2022	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	435	436
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	834 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	1792
Pixel fill rate	131.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	262.4 GTexel/s	93.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	21700 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2,989 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	5460 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore