Intel Arc Pro A30M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Intel Arc Pro A30M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc Pro A30M 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 Pro A30M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2000MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A30M

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +13%

4.669 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A30M

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Sep 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

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