Arc A530M vs Radeon RX 7950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated304
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.01
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameNavi 31DG2-256
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 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 cores53761536
Core clock speed2000 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed3000 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors57,700 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate1,008124.8
Floating-point processing power64.51 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs19248
TMUs33696
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Cores8412

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
Length276 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount20 GB8 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth800.0 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 HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

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
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 65 Watt

RX 7950 XT has a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has 361.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 7950 XT and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 7950 XT is a desktop card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


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