Arc A530M vs Apple M1 7-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated308
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.71
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataDG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)1 August 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores71536
Core clock speed1278 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data124.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.994 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data96
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 7-Core GPU and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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