Intel Arc A550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Intel Arc A550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M 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 A550M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1140MHz vs 900MHz)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M

3.686 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +26%

4.669 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

900 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

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

-

16

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

406 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

6.7 (6.4)

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