Intel Arc A310 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

Intel Arc A310

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1750MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +35%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

Blender

Arc A310 +327%

475

GeForce GTX 660

111

Arc A310

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2012

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

768

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

24

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

GK106

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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