Intel Arc A530M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1300MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +141%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

May 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

Saturn

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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