Intel Arc A550M vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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Intel Arc A550M Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1650MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M +45%

3.686 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

Alchemist

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

DG1

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

-

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

6 nm

Process Size

10 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

406 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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