AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs Intel Arc A550M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile Intel Arc A550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1211MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +197%

3.686 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

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Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

DG2-512

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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