AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs Intel Arc A530M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1300MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Arc A530M +73%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

Crystal System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

12

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

DG2-256

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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