NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs Intel Arc A380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc A380 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 69% (2050MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
+18%
4.981 TFLOPS
Arc A380
4.198 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980
+1%
4362
Arc A380
4277
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980
+1%
2049
Arc A380
2017
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980
+80%
18
Arc A380
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980
+25%
35
Arc A380
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980
+55%
62
Arc A380
40
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
2050 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
186.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.60 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.397 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.198 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1050 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-128
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
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
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
