Intel Arc Pro B50 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2025
Sep 2014
Generation
Battlemage
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
2600 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
16
64
RT Cores
16
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
L1 Cache
-
48 KB (per SMM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
41.60 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
332.8 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.30 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
10.65 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.662 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
BMG-G21
GM204
Architecture
Xe2
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
19.6 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
272 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM204-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
70W
165W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2