Arc A530M vs GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated309
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.52
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD107DG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 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 cores30721536
Core clock speed1140 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1470 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate141.1124.8
Floating-point processing power9.032 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs9696
Tensor Cores96192
Ray Tracing Cores2412

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
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt

RTX 4060 Max-Q has a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 85.7% lower power consumption.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q
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