Arc A730M vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated201
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.68
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameCedarDG2-512
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 March 2011 (13 years ago)2022 (2 years 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 cores803072
Core clock speed650 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistors292 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200393.6
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS12.6 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs8192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s336.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

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


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 80 Watt

ATI HD 5530 has 321.1% lower power consumption.

Arc A730M, on the other hand, has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5530 and Arc A730M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5530 is a desktop card while Arc A730M is a notebook one.


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