Arc A530M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

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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 data19.29
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameM86DG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 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 cores1201536
Core clock speed500 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors378 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate4.000124.8
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs896
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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 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.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 65 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3650 has 116.7% lower power consumption.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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