RTX A5500 Max-Q vs Arc A350M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking357not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency40.17no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-128GA103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date30 March 2022 (2 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores7687424
Core clock speed300 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speed1150 MHz1260 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate55.20292.3
Floating-point processing power1.766 TFLOPS18.71 TFLOPS
ROPs2496
TMUs48232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Cores658

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 80 Watt

Arc A350M has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 220% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Arc A350M and RTX A5500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A350M is a notebook graphics card while RTX A5500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Arc A350M
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