Arc A380 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated333
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data43.92
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)Xe HPG (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGMA 500DG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 November 2008 (15 years ago)14 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores41024
Core clock speed200 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data131.2

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data222 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data15500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data186.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2008 14 June 2022
Chip lithography 130 nm 6 nm

Arc A380 has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 2066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 and Arc A380. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 is a notebook card while Arc A380 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
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Intel Arc A380
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