Arc A530M vs Data Center GPU Max Subsystem

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated308
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.71
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code namePonte VecchioDG2-256
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores163841536
Core clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors100,000 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)2400 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate1,638124.8
Floating-point processing power52.43 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUs102496
Tensor Cores1024192
Ray Tracing Cores12812

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 5.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinno 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 amount128 GB8 GB
Memory bus width8192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1565 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth3,205 GB/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


Recency 10 January 2023 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 128 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 2400 Watt 65 Watt

Data Center GPU Max Subsystem has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, a 66.7% more advanced lithography process, and 3592.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Data Center GPU Max Subsystem and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Data Center GPU Max Subsystem is a workstation card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


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Intel Data Center GPU Max Subsystem
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