Arc A530M vs Iris Xe Graphics 96EU

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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 12.2 (2022−2023)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRaptor Lake GT1DG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 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 cores7681536
Core clock speed300 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate72.00124.8
Floating-point processing power2.304 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs2448
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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 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.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2023 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU has 333.3% lower power consumption.

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

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 96EU and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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