NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs Intel Arc A530M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 65W)

Intel Arc A530M's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1300MHz vs 990MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +1%

4.055 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

622MHz

Base Clock

900MHz

990MHz

Boost Clock

1300MHz

1500MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

192

16

RT Cores

12

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2MB

L2 Cache

8MB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

DG2-256

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GPU Variant

ACM-G12

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

Unknown

200mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

35W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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