Arc A530M vs GeForce 320M Mac Edition

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameC89DG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2010 (14 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 cores481536
Core clock speed450 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors486 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate7.200124.8
Floating-point processing power0.0912 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs1696
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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2010 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 65 Watt

320M Mac Edition has 182.6% lower power consumption.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 320M Mac Edition and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition
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