Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1825 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 2150 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 300 W
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 3 Aug 2021
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1825 MHz
Boost clock speed 2350 MHz vs 2150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 300 W

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

  • 4.6x more texture fill rate: 688.0 GTexel/s vs 150.4 GTexel/s
  • 5x more pipelines: 5120 vs 1024
  • 5.3x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 6 GB
  • 4.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 151605 vs 33127
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 688.0 GTexel/s vs 150.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 151605 vs 33127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
33127
151605
Name Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon Pro W6900X
PassMark - G2D Mark 613
PassMark - G3D Mark 5222
Geekbench - OpenCL 33127 151605
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3739
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3739

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 RDNA 2.0
Code name DG2-128 Navi 21
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 3 Aug 2021
Place in performance rating 235 233
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2350 MHz 2150 MHz
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,203 GFLOPS (1:4) 1,376 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.626 TFLOPS (2:1) 44.03 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.813 TFLOPS 22.02 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 5120
Pixel fill rate 75.20 GPixel/s 275.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s 688.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 300 W
Transistor count 7200 million 26800 million
Compute units 80

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 1x HDMI 2.14x Thunderbolt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Form factor Quad-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 W
Width 120 mm 4.7 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 32 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6