AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs Intel Arc A530M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1300MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Arc A530M +258%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2023

Vancouver

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

12

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

DG2-256

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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