Arc A530M vs FirePro 2270 1GB Edition

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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 data18.70
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameCedarDG2-256
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date31 January 2011 (13 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 cores801536
Core clock speed600 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors292 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)17 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate4.80124.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs896
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s224.0 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 Connectors1x DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2011 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 17 Watt 65 Watt

2270 1GB Edition has 282.4% lower power consumption.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro 2270 1GB Edition and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro 2270 1GB Edition is a workstation card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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