Intel Arc A530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A530M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 25% (1300MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A530M +50%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Arc A530M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900MHz

Base Clock

924MHz

1300MHz

Boost Clock

1038MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1253MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

192

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8MB

L2 Cache

1536KB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-256

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G12

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5,200 million

Unknown

Die Size

398mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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