Arc 5 A550M vs GeForce GT 635 OEM

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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
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGK208DG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2013 (11 years ago)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 cores3842048
Core clock speed967 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data900 MHz
Number of transistors915 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate30.94115.2
Floating-point processing power0.7427 TFLOPS3.686 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs32128

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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 60 Watt

GT 635 OEM has 71.4% lower power consumption.

Arc 5 A550M, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 635 OEM and Arc 5 A550M. We've got no test results to judge.


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