AMD FirePro M8900 vs Intel Arc A530M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1300MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Arc A530M
+205%
3.994 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Aug 2023
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1300 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
1536
48
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
12
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
65W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
DG2-256
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
ACM-G12
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
212 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
