Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Intel Arc A530M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1300MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +16%

4.669 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Sep 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

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

72.96 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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

6.7 (6.4)

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