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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPU vs Intel Arc A550M

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPU

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The NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPU or A4000 Mobile is a professional graphics card for mobile workstations. It is based on the GA104 Ampere chip and similar to the consumer GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU. It offers the same 5.120 graphics cores, 40 RT cores, 160 Tensor cores and 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus. It supports PCIe 4.0 and will be available in different variants from 80 - 140 Watt (TGP) with different clock speeds (and performance). The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor and DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 for external connections.

There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, WhisperMode).

The raw performance should be similar to the GeForce RTX 3070 for laptops at the same TGP level. Both GPUs depend heavily on good cooling and a high TGP for good performance. At a similar power consumption level the RTX A4000 should be clearly faster than the old Quadro RTX 4000 and 4000 Max-Q. The desktop variant of the A4000 however, is a lot faster.

The GA104 chip offers 6,144 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 3,072 INT32 ALUs). With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The A4000 only uses 5,120 of the 6,144 CUDA cores. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA104 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).

Intel Arc A550M

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The Intel Arc A550M (device ID 5692) is a dedicated mobile lower- mid-range graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G10 chip and offers 16 of the 32 Xe-cores (256 ALUs), 16 ray tracing units and a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The cores can clock from 300 MHz (low frequency mode) to 900 MHz (high frequency) or in short bursts 2050 MHz (short bursts / Turbo). The chip integrates 21.7 billion transistors, uses a BGA2660 package and the die measures 406 mm2.

The performance of the Arc A550M should be between the Radeon RX 6500M and 6600M and therefore well suited even for demanding games in medium to high detail settings and 1080p. The slower Arc A370M is based on the smaller ACM-G11 chip and should be significantly slower.

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G. 

The A550M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPUIntel Arc A550M
Arc Series
RTX A5500 Laptop GPU compare 7424 256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
RTX A4500 Laptop GPU compare 5888 @ 0.93 - 1.5 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
RTX A5000 Laptop GPU compare 6144 @ 1.22 - 1.77 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A4000 Laptop GPU 5120 @ 0.78 - 1.68 GHz256 Bit @ 12000 MHz
RTX A3000 Laptop GPU compare 4096 @ 1.08 - 1.56 GHz192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A2000 Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 0.89 - 1.69 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A1000 Laptop GPU compare 2048 128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A500 Laptop GPU compare 2048 64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Arc A770 compare 4096 @ 2.1 - 2.4 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A750 compare 3584 @ 2.05 - 2.4 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A580 compare 3072 @ 1.7 - 2 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A770M compare 4096 @ 1.65 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A730M compare 3072 @ 1.1 GHz192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A570M compare 16 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A550M 16 @ 0.9 - 2.01 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A530M compare 12 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A370M compare 8 @ 1.55 GHz64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Arc A380 compare 1024 @ 2 GHz96 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A310 compare 6 @ 2 GHz64 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A350M compare 6 @ 1.15 GHz64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
CodenameGA104Alchemist
ArchitectureAmpereXe HPG
Pipelines5120 - unified16 - unified
TMUs160128
ROPs8064
Raytracing Cores4016
Tensor / AI Cores160
Core Speed780 - 1680 (Boost) MHz900 - 2005 (Boost) MHz
Theoretical Performance17.8 TFLOPS FP32
CacheL2: 4 MBL1: 3 MB, L2: 16 MB
Memory Speed12000 effective = 1500 MHz14000 effective = 1750 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB8 GB
Shared Memorynono
Memory Bandwidth384 GB/s224 GB/s
APIDirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
Power Consumption140 Watt (80 - 125 Watt TGP)80 Watt (60 - 80 Watt TGP)
technology8 nm6 nm
PCIe4.04 16x
DisplaysHDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.44 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 2.0 10G Ready
FeaturesDisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1, PCIe 4.0 x16, 17.8 SP-FP TFLOPS Peak, 143 Tensor Performance Peak, up to 384 GB/s Memory Bandwidth, Resizable BAR, Support for Modern Standby
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement12.04.2021 30.03.2022
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.comark.intel.com
Transistors21.7 Billion
Die Size 406 mm²

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
100%
1 A550M +
6320 Points (18%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
100%
1 A550M +
5830 Points (15%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
100%
1 A550M +
12900 Points (23%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
100%
1 A550M +
14350 Points (16%)

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)