Intel Arc A550M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M +326%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850M

0.864 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

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Radeon HD 7850M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

Alchemist

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

864.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Heathrow

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Heathrow PRO

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

40W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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