Arc Pro A50: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
Intel started Arc Pro A50 sales 8 August 2022. This is a Generation 12.7 architecture desktop card based on 6 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Arc Pro A50: 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 | DG2-128 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 8 August 2022 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Arc Pro A50's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arc Pro A50's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2350 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 7,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 150.4 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.813 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 8 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| L2 Cache | 4 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arc Pro A50 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 x8 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Arc Pro A50: 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 | 6 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 96 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Arc Pro A50. 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 | 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Arc Pro A50, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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