AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs Intel Arc A530M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M 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)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Arc A530M +141%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Arc A530M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Solar System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

12

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

DG2-256

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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