Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 81% higher boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 1300 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 166.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 12500 million
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 19 March 2019
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Boost clock speed 2350 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 150.4 GTexel/s
  • 3x more pipelines: 3072 vs 1024
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 788 vs 613
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11289 vs 5222
  • Around 62% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 53783 vs 33127
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s vs 150.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3072 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 788 vs 613
PassMark - G3D Mark 11289 vs 5222
Geekbench - OpenCL 53783 vs 33127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
613
788
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5222
11289
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
33127
53783
Name Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
PassMark - G2D Mark 613 788
PassMark - G3D Mark 5222 11289
Geekbench - OpenCL 33127 53783
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 10411

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 Vega 10 PRO
Code name DG2-128 Greenland
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 19 March 2019
Place in performance rating 235 232
GCN generation GCN 5.0
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2350 MHz 1300 MHz
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,203 GFLOPS (1:4) 499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.626 TFLOPS (2:1) 15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.813 TFLOPS 7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 3072
Pixel fill rate 75.20 GPixel/s 83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s 249.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 12500 million
Transistor count 7200 million

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

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 402.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)