Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 587.5x more texture fill rate: 150.4 GTexel/s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 500 MHz
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed 2350 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • 4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
Pipelines 4096 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Name Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon R9 Nano
PassMark - G2D Mark 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 5224
Geekbench - OpenCL 33127
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4579

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A50 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 3.0
Code name DG2-128 Fiji
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 27 August 2015
Place in performance rating 263 261
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2350 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 2000 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 4096
Pixel fill rate 75.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s 256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 7200 million 8,900 million
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 8,192 gflops
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 152 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore