AMD FirePro M8900 vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+182%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2022
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
900 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
2048
48
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
DG2-512
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
