Intel Arc Pro A40 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT. Specifications, performance, tests

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards Intel Arc Pro A40 and AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT, chip, information processing units.

• Architecture
  Generation 12.7 / Alchemist (Pro-Series) RDNA 2
• Execution Units
  1024 32
• GPU Chip
  DG2-128 Navi 23 KXT
• L1 Cache
  No 128 KB
• L2 Cache
  4 MB 2 MB
• Render Output Units
  32 64
• RT Cores
  8 -
• Shader
  128 2048
• Texture Units
  64 128
• Based on
  - AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
• Compute Units
  - 32
• L3 Cache
  - 32 MB
• Ray Accelerators
  - 32

Video memory capacity, type, bus width and bandwidth describe different properties. These values alone do not determine graphics performance.

• Memory Bandwidth
  192 GB/s 280 GB/s
• Memory Bus
  96 bit 128 bit
• Memory Clock
  2000 MHz 2190 MHz
• Memory Data Rate
  16 Gbps 17.5 Gbps
• Memory Size
  6 GB 8 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 GDDR6
• Infinity Cache
  - 32 MB

Published GPU clock frequencies describe different operating modes. Clock speed alone does not determine graphics performance.

• Base Clock
  1500 MHz 2055 MHz
• Boost Clock
  1700 MHz 2635 MHz
• Game Clock
  - 2410 MHz

Graphics card power limits and recommended system power supply describe different specifications.

• System Power Supply
  250 W (PSU recommendation) Conflicting source values: 450 W (PSU recommendation) | 500 W (System power requirement)
• TDP
  50 W 176 W
• Typical Board Power
  - 180 W

Connectivity and connections.

• DisplayPort Ports
  4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 3 × DisplayPort 1.4a
• PCIe Interface
  PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
• Power Connectors
  No 1x8-Pin
• HDMI Ports
  - 1 × HDMI 2.1
• Max. Displays
  - 4

Technical data that is used to its full potential in computer games.

• DirectX
  12_2 12.2
• Max. resolution
  3840 × 2160 7680 × 4320
• OpenCL
  3.0 2.1
• OpenGL
  4.6 4.6
• Shader Model
  6.6 6.5
• Vulkan
  1.3 1.3

Built-in support for video and image compression standards.

• AV1
  - Decode
• h264
  - Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC
  - Decode / Encode
• VP8
  - Decode / Encode
• VP9
  - Decode / Encode

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and Intel Arc Pro A40.

• Process Technology
  6 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 2022-05-10

• FP16 (theoretical)
  6.963 TFLOPS (2:1) 21.59 TFLOPS
• FP32 (theoretical)
  3.482 TFLOPS 10.79 TFLOPS
• FP64 (theoretical)
  0.8704 TFLOPS 0.6746 TFLOPS
• Pixel Rate
  54.40 GPixel/s 168.6 GPixel/s
• Texture Rate
  108.8 GTexel/s 337.3 GTexel/s