Intel Arc Pro A50 vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and AMD Radeon VII 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 - Video Composition (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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc Pro A50

AMD Radeon VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Around 34% higher boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 1750 MHz
348x more texture fill rate: 150.4 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
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 Watt

Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 7 February 2019
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz vs 1750 MHz
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

3.8x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1024
2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 790 vs 613
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16391 vs 5222
2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91645 vs 33127

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	3840 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	790 vs 613
PassMark - G3D Mark	16391 vs 5222
Geekbench - OpenCL	91645 vs 33127

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

613

790

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5222

16391

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

33127

91645

Name	Intel Arc Pro A50	AMD Radeon VII
PassMark - G2D Mark	613	790
PassMark - G3D Mark	5222	16391
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127	91645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2308

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A50	AMD Radeon VII
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 5.1
Code name	DG2-128	Vega 20
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	7 February 2019
Place in performance rating	237	240
Design		AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation		5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$699.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz	1750 MHz
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,203 GFLOPS (1:4)	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.626 TFLOPS (2:1)	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.813 TFLOPS	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	1024	3840
Pixel fill rate	75.20 GPixel/s	115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s	432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	13,230 million
Compute units		60
Stream Processors		3840
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		750 W
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore