NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs Intel Arc A380M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A380M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (2000MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Arc A380M +18%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Arc A380M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.1)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1550 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

8

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG2-128

N16E-GX-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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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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