NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs Intel Arc A350M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs Intel Arc A350M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

1817 points

10% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

32 FPS

47 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

32 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

31 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

Identical

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

377.40 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

24875 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

24781 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

245% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1150 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

43% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

25 W

300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

161% significantly higher pixel rate

27.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

55.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

96% significantly better floating point performance

1.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

100% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

229th of 586

220th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs Arc A350M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Arc A350M beats the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Arc A350M has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Arc A350M has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Arc A350M over the GeForce GTX 980M.