GPU Comparison

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Intel

GPU

Intel Arc A530M

CORE STATE DG2-256

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1300 MHz

TDP 65 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Xe-HPG

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

49,735

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

43,492

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

A530M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,048 +33.3%

Shaders

1,536

2,048 +33.3%

TMUs

96

128 +33.3%

ROPs

48

64 +33.3%

Execution Units

192

—

Clocks

Base Clock

900 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.994 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.987 TFLOPS (2:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

12

—

XMX Cores

192

—

Power

TDP

65 W

165 W

TDP (W)

65

165 +153.8%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Xe-HPG

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

DG2-256

GM204

Generation

Alchemist (Arc 5 Mobile)

GeForce 900

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

11,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

269 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

42.8M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.6

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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