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Intel Arc A530M vs AMD Radeon RX 540X

Intel Arc A530M

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The Intel Arc A530M (device ID 5697) is a dedicated mobile lower- mid-range graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G12 chip and offers 12 of the 16 Xe-cores (192 ALUs), 12 ray tracing units and a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The cores can clock from 300 MHz (low frequency mode) to 1300 MHz (high frequency) or in short bursts 2050+ MHz (short bursts / Turbo).

The performance of the Arc A530M should be slightly below the older Arc A550M (more cores but less clock speed).

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G. 

The A530M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).

AMD Radeon RX 540X

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The AMD Radeon RX 540X is mobile mid-range graphics card for laptops based on the Polaris 12 chip (most likely). It is manufactured in an improved 14 nm FinFET process and technically similar to the older Radeon RX 540. The only difference so far is a 4% higher theoretical peak performance (1.25 versus 1.2 TFLOPS according to AMD). Compared to Nvidia graphics cards, the gaming performance should be between the GeForce GTX 950M and GTX 960M.

The similar named Radeon 540X (without RX) offers a smaller memory bus and therefore also a slightly reduced performance.

The features of the Radeon RX 540X are identical to the faster RX 460 and all other Polaris chips. See more details on the Polaris architecture here.

The power envelope of the faster Radeon Pro 460 is rated at 35 Watt according to the AMD blog post. Due to the slower specs, the Radeon RX 540 use slightly less.

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Intel Arc A530MAMD Radeon RX 540X
Radeon RX 500 Series
Arc A770 compare 4096 @ 2.1 - 2.4 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A750 compare 3584 @ 2.05 - 2.4 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Arc A580 compare 3072 @ 1.7 - 2 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A770M compare 4096 @ 1.65 GHz256 Bit @ 16000 MHz
A730M compare 3072 @ 1.1 GHz192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A570M compare 16 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A550M compare 16 @ 0.9 - 2.01 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A530M 12 @ 0.9 - 1.3 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
A370M compare 8 @ 1.55 GHz64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Arc A380 compare 1024 @ 2 GHz96 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A310 compare 6 @ 2 GHz64 Bit @ 15500 MHz
A350M compare 6 @ 1.15 GHz64 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Radeon RX 590 compare 2304 @ 1.47 - 1.55 GHz256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 580 compare 2304 @ 1.26 - 1.34 GHz256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 570 compare 2048 @ 1.17 - 1.24 GHz256 Bit @ 7000 MHz
Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) compare 2304 @ 1 - 1.08 GHz256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) compare 2048 @ 0.93 - 1.21 GHz256 Bit @ 7000 MHz
Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) compare 1024 @ 1.17 - 1.28 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 560 (Laptop) compare 1024 @ 1.09 - 1.29 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) compare 640 @ 1.29 - 1.48 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 540X 512 @ 1.22 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 540 compare 512 @ 1.22 GHz128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
CodenameAlchemistPolaris 12
ArchitectureXe HPGGCN 4.0
Pipelines12 - unified512 - unified
TMUs96
ROPs48
Raytracing Cores12
Core Speed900 - 1300 (Boost) MHz1219 (Boost) MHz
CacheL2: 8 MB
Memory Speed14000 effective = 1750 MHz6000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB4 GB
Shared Memorynono
Memory Bandwidth224 GB/s
APIDirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3DirectX 12_0, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption65 Watt (65 - 95 Watt TGP)50 Watt
technology6 nm14 nm
PCIe4 16x
Displays4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 2.0 10G Ready
Date of Announcement31.07.2023 21.03.2018
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.intel.comwww.amd.com
Transistors2.2 Billion
FeaturesDisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync
Notebook Sizelarge

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