GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc A350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Arc A350 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+27%
3920
Arc A350
3072
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+12%
3646
Arc A350
3239
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+13%
1683
Arc A350
1481
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
124.0GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
24
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
6
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
48.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.144 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.072 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
768.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-128
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
