Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Intel Arc Pro A50

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
3x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 675 MHz
5570.4x more texture fill rate: 150.4 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 613 vs 566
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5222 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	613 vs 566
PassMark - G3D Mark	5222 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

613

566

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5222

1373

Name	Intel Arc Pro A50	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G2D Mark	613	566
PassMark - G3D Mark	5222	1373
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A50	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 1.0
Code name	DG2-128	Heathrow
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	237	235
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,203 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.626 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.813 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	640
Pixel fill rate	75.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
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	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0