Intel Arc A550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2015
Generation
Alchemist
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
300 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
16
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L2 Cache
8 MB
1024 KB
L1 Cache
—
48 KB (per SMM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-512
GM206
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
Generation 12.7
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.7 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
406 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
60W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
5,235
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,347
1,025
Blender
809
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.