Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB vs Arc 5 A550M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA10B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2022 (2 years ago)March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20481024
Core clock speedno data625 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors21,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate115.220.00
Floating-point processing power3.686 TFLOPS1.28 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs12832
Tensor Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
WidthIGPno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12 GB/s1067 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s68.29 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

Arc 5 A550M has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB, on the other hand, has 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc 5 A550M and Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc 5 A550M is a desktop card while Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB is a notebook one.


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Intel Arc 5 A550M
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