Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1300MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +15%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1300 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

96

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

72.13 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-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

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

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

6.7 (6.4)

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