Arc A530M vs GeForce 405M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated304
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.00
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGT218DG2-256
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 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 cores161536
Core clock speed606 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors260 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate4.848124.8
Floating-point processing power0.03878 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
Gigaflops73no data
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).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 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 ConnectorsDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVIPortable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 65 Watt

GeForce 405M has 364.3% lower power consumption.

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

We couldn't decide between GeForce 405M and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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