Intel Arc A380M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc A380M 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 A380M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A380M
+4%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980MX
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2023
Release Date
Jun 2016
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.1)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1550 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1937 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
186.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
1664
64
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
64
128
Tensor Cores
-
8
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
148W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
GM204
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
157 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
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
