Arc A530M vs Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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 data18.70
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameMaltaDG2-256
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 April 2013 (11 years ago)1 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores20481536
Core clock speed950 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate128.0124.8
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs12896
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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length307 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2013 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 65 Watt

Arc A530M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 476.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8990 OEM and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8990 OEM is a desktop card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


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