Arc A530M vs Matrox G550

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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
ArchitectureG500 (2001−2005)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameCondorDG2-256
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 January 2001 (23 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 coresno data1536
Core clock speed125 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors10 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rate0.25124.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs296
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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed332 MBps1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DVI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.54.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2001 1 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 6 nm

Arc A530M has an age advantage of 22 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox G550 and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox G550 is a desktop card while Arc A530M is a notebook one.


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