Arc A380 vs Radeon 530X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated334
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data44.12
Power efficiencyno data14.75
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameMesoDG2-128
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)14 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3841024
Core clock speed730 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHz2050 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate24.50131.2
Floating-point processing powerno data4.198 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2464
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data222 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed4000 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s186.0 GB/s

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 HDMI, 1x VGA1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 14 June 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

Radeon 530X has 50% lower power consumption.

Arc A380, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530X and Arc A380. We've got no test results to judge.


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