Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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Intel Arc A530M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1300MHz vs 1178MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +1%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jun 2016

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1664

96

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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