GeForce GTX 980MX and Arc A530M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980MX

Arc A530M

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Xe HPG (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM204

Alchemist

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2016

July 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

1300 MHz

Core clock speed

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

12

Power consumption (TDP)

148 Watt

65 Watt (65 - 95 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

122.5

124.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3