NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs Intel Arc A730M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile Intel Arc A730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1140MHz vs 1100MHz)

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

Arc A730M +44%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Arc A730M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

24

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.758 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG2-512

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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