NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs Intel Arc A530M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1300MHz vs 1127MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Arc A530M +15%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

12

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG2-256

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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