Arc 5 A550M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Arc 5 A550M sales on 2022. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Generation 12.7 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Arc 5 A550M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in the ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Generation 12.7 (2022−2023) | |
GPU code name | DG2-512 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Arc 5 A550M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arc 5 A550M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Boost clock speed | 900 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
Number of transistors | 21,700 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 115.2 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Floating-point processing power | 3.686 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
ROPs | 64 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arc 5 A550M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Arc 5 A550M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR6 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 12 GB/s | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Arc 5 A550M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Arc 5 A550M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
Shader Model | 6.6 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 3.0 | |
Vulkan | 1.3 |
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