Intel Arc Pro A50 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Arc Pro A50

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 861 MHz
2.3x more boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 1038 MHz
1131.7x more texture fill rate: 150.4 GTexel/s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 8 April 2016
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 861 MHz
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 613
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 5222

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 613
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 5222

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

613

698

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5222

7915

Name	Intel Arc Pro A50	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	613	698
PassMark - G3D Mark	5222	7915
Geekbench - OpenCL	33127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4193
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4193

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A50	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	DG2-128	GM204
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	8 April 2016
Place in performance rating	252	255
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	861 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	2048
Pixel fill rate	75.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	150.4 GTexel/s	132.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	5,200 million
Floating-point performance		4,252 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
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	224.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	7012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5