Intel Arc A530M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A530M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1300MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +100%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Nov 2014

Alchemist

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

Pitcairn

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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