NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs Intel Arc A530M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 65W)

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1300MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +146%

9.846 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

192

30

RT Cores

12

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

DG2-256

-

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

60W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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