Arc A530M vs Arctic Sound 1T

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated304
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.01
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameArctic SoundDG2-256
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date2021 (3 years ago)1 August 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores61441536
Core clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate172.8124.8
Floating-point processing power11.06 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs19296
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.23 TB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 65 Watt

Arctic Sound 1T has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process, and 438.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arctic Sound 1T and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arctic Sound 1T is a workstation card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


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