Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1300MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +165%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

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GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Mar 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

640

96

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

GM107

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.87 billion

Unknown

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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