Arc A530M vs FirePro M8900

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated310
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.90
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameBlackcombDG2-256
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2011 (13 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 cores9601536
Core clock speed680 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate32.64124.8
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs4896
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x8
Form factorMXM-Bno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt

Arc A530M has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Arc A530M is a mobile workstation one.


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