NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs Intel Arc A380M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 6GB VRAM Arc A380M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A380M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2000MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Arc A380M +57%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Arc A380M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 800M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.1)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1550 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

DG2-128

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Kepler

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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