Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1531MHz vs 1300MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +409%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Feb 2019

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

256

96

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

GP108

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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