NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU vs Intel Arc A550M vs Intel Arc A570M

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU

The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU or A5500 Mobile is a professional graphics card for mobile workstations. It is based on the GA103S Ampere chip and similar to the consumer GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU. It offers the same 7424 graphics cores, 58 RT cores, 232 Tensor cores, and 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus. It supports PCIe 4.0 and will be available in different variants from 80 - 165 Watt (TGP) with different clock speeds (and performance). The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor and DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 for external connections.

There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, Whispermode).

The raw performance should be similar to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti laptop at the same TGP level. Both GPUs depend heavily on good cooling and a high TGP for good performance. At a similar power consumption level, the RTX A5500 should be clearly faster than the old RTX A5000 и Quadro RTX 5000. The desktop variant of the A5500 however, is a lot faster.

The GA103S chip offers 7424 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 3712 INT32 ALUs). With Ampere, all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA103S chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).

Intel Arc A550M

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The Intel Arc A550M (device ID 5692) is a dedicated mobile lower- mid-range graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G10 chip and offers 16 of the 32 Xe-cores (256 ALUs), 16 ray tracing units and a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The cores can clock from 300 MHz (low frequency mode) to 900 MHz (high frequency) or in short bursts 2050 MHz (short bursts / Turbo). The chip integrates 21.7 billion transistors, uses a BGA2660 package and the die measures 406 mm2.

The performance of the Arc A550M should be between the Radeon RX 6500M and 6600M and therefore well suited even for demanding games in medium to high detail settings and 1080p. The slower Arc A370M is based on the smaller ACM-G11 chip and should be significantly slower.

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G.

The A550M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).

Intel Arc A570M

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The Intel Arc A570M (device ID 5696) is a dedicated mobile lower- mid-range graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G12 chip and offers all 16 Xe-cores (256 ALUs), 16 ray tracing units and a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The cores can clock from 300 MHz (low frequency mode) to 1300 MHz (high frequency) or in short bursts 2050+ MHz (short bursts / Turbo).

The performance of the Arc A570M should be between the Radeon RX 6500M and 6600M and therefore well suited even for demanding games in medium to high detail settings and 1080p. The slower Arc A370M is based on the smaller ACM-G11 chip and should be significantly slower, the similar Arc A550M is a slower clocked variant with a slightly lower TDP.

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G.

The A570M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).

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NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU

Intel Arc A550M

Intel Arc A570M

Arc Series

RTX A5500 Laptop GPU	7424	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
RTX A4500 Laptop GPU	5888 @ 0.93 - 1.5 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
RTX A5000 Laptop GPU	6144 @ 1.22 - 1.77 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A4000 Laptop GPU	5120 @ 0.78 - 1.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 12000 MHz
RTX A3000 Laptop GPU	4096 @ 1.08 - 1.56 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A2000	3328 @ 0.56 - 1.2 GHz	192 Bit @ 12000 MHz
RTX A2000 Laptop GPU	2560 @ 0.89 - 1.69 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A1000 Laptop GPU	2048	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
RTX A500 Laptop GPU	2048	64 Bit @ 14000 MHz

Arc B580	2560 @ 2.67 - 2.67 GHz	192 Bit @ 19000 MHz
Arc A770	4096 @ 2.1 - 2.4 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A750	3584 @ 2.05 - 2.4 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A580	3072 @ 1.7 - 2 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A770M	4096 @ 1.65 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A730M	3072 @ 1.1 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A570M	16 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A550M	16 @ 0.9 - 2.01 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A530M	12 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A370M	8 @ 1.55 GHz	64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Arc A380	1024 @ 2 GHz	96 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A310	6 @ 2 GHz	64 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A350M	6 @ 1.15 GHz	64 Bit @ 14000 MHz

Arc B580	2560 @ 2.67 - 2.67 GHz	192 Bit @ 19000 MHz
Arc A770	4096 @ 2.1 - 2.4 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A750	3584 @ 2.05 - 2.4 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A580	3072 @ 1.7 - 2 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A770M	4096 @ 1.65 GHz	256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A730M	3072 @ 1.1 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A570M	16 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A550M	16 @ 0.9 - 2.01 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A530M	12 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz	128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A370M	8 @ 1.55 GHz	64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Arc A380	1024 @ 2 GHz	96 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A310	6 @ 2 GHz	64 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A350M	6 @ 1.15 GHz	64 Bit @ 14000 MHz

Codename

GA103S

Alchemist

Architecture

Ampere

Xe HPG

Pipelines

7424 - unified

16 - unified

Raytracing Cores

Tensor / AI Cores

232

Theoretical Performance

24.7 TFLOPS FP32

Memory Speed

16000 MHz

14000 effective = 1750 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR6

Max. Amount of Memory

16 GB

8 GB

Shared Memory

Memory Bandwidth

512 GB/s

224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6

DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3

Power Consumption

165 Watt (80 - 165 Watt TGP)

80 Watt (60 - 80 Watt TGP)

75 Watt (75 - 95 Watt TGP)

technology

8 nm

6 nm

PCIe

4 16x

Notebook Size

large

Date of Announcement

30.03.2022

31.07.2023

Link to Manufacturer Page

Predecessor

TMUs

128

ROPs

Core Speed

900 - 2005 (Boost) MHz

900 - 1300 (Boost) MHz

Cache

L1: 3 MB, L2: 16 MB

L2: 8 MB

Transistors

21.7 Billion

Die Size

406 mm²

Displays

4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 2.0 10G Ready

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score

100%

Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
HP ZBook Fury 16 G9	i9-12950HX 96 W / 71 W	RTX A5500 Laptop GPU 1260 / 1750 MHz 16 GB	64 GB	9402
Dell Precision 7000 7670 Performance	i9-12950HX 147 W / 76 W	RTX A5500 Laptop GPU 135 W 1380 / 1750 MHz 16 GB	16 GB	9872
Lenovo ThinkPad P16 G1 RTX A5500	i9-12950HX 135 W / 82 W	RTX A5500 Laptop GPU 130 W 1500 / 2000 MHz 16 GB	64 GB	10760

	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU						Intel Arc A550M						Intel Arc A570M
	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
Returnal	70	68	64	59	42	20
F1 22	207	199	167	64	39	18
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands	193.7	158.6	109.5	87.5	57.9	29.6
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6	118	104	88	75	45	19
God of War	128.9	119.6	105.6	79	62.2	35.6
Guardians of the Galaxy	142	124	137	134	104	49
Far Cry 6	132	115	104	95	79	42
Hitman 3	229	186.6	179.9	161.4	104.6	43.8
Dirt 5	167.6	130	114.8	92.2	71.9	39.8
Watch Dogs Legion	119	98	93	77	58	30
Horizon Zero Dawn	139	130	111	101	89	42
Gears Tactics	314.1	189.7	139.2	110.1	77.1	34.9
Borderlands 3	162.9	135.4	110.4	89.3	62.7	30.2
Metro Exodus	171	125.8	95.3	75.7	58.5	31.3
Strange Brigade	422	248	204	181	130	67.6
X-Plane 11.11	151	134	107			89
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark	187	138	108		79	43
Dota 2 Reborn	193	173	163	153		127
The Witcher 3	453	315	196	102		63
GTA V	185	181	172	115	100	97.1
	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU						Intel Arc A550M						Intel Arc A570M
	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps	3 17	5 15	12 8	1 13 4	6 10 1	4 11 4 1	< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps							< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU vs Intel Arc A550M vs Intel Arc A570M