Arc A530M vs RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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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
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD106DG2-256
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores46081536
Core clock speed1395 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors22,900 million11,500 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate244.1124.8
Floating-point processing power15.62 TFLOPS3.994 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs14496
Tensor Cores144192
Ray Tracing Cores3612

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 4.0 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 1 August 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 65 Watt

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Arc A530M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 76.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and Arc A530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation card while Arc A530M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
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Intel Arc A530M
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