Intel Arc A530M vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A530M and AMD Radeon Pro VII videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Intel Arc A530M

AMD Radeon Pro VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A530M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Launch date	1 Aug 2023 vs 13 May 2020
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1300 MHz
3.3x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 124.8 GTexel/s
2.5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1536
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 91% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89937 vs 47183

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 124.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3840 vs 1536
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	89937 vs 47183

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A530M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47183

89937

Name	Intel Arc A530M	AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G2D Mark	598
PassMark - G3D Mark	6053
Geekbench - OpenCL	47183	89937

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A530M	AMD Radeon Pro VII
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	GCN 5.1
Code name	DG2-256	Vega 20
Launch date	1 Aug 2023	13 May 2020
Place in performance rating	199	191
Launch price (MSRP)		$1899
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1700 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	1536	3840
Pixel fill rate	62.40 GPixel/s	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s	408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	11500 million	13230 million
Compute units		60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		13.06 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	6x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length		305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width		111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)