GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc B580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 190W)
Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 127% (2670MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Arc B580
+248%
13670
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Arc B580
+303%
14701
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Arc B580
+319%
7068
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Arc B580
+454%
1690
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Arc B580
+231%
146
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2670 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2670 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
456.0GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
2560
104
TMUs
160
56
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
20
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
18 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
213.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
427.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.34 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.67 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.709 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
190W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
BMG-G21
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
SRPMF
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
272 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
