Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Oct 2014
Generation
Data Center GPU
GeForce 900M
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
—
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1127 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
8GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
1536
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
128
64
L2 Cache
8 MB
2 MB
L1 Cache
—
48 KB (per SMM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
72.13 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
3.462 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
108.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GM204
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
N16E-GX-A1
Board Design
TDP
500W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
900 W
—
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
6.6
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,916
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,767
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.