Arc A310 vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated368
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data13.05
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRV410DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 January 2007 (17 years ago)12 October 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 coresno data768
Core clock speed400 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors120 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20064.00
Floating-point processing powerno data3.072 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs832
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data6

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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth4.8 GB/s124.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 January 2007 12 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 6 nm

Arc A310 has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1733.3% more advanced lithography process.

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