Intel Arc A310 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1750MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +11%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Blender

Arc A310 +104%

393

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A310

7

GeForce GTX 960 +42%

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A310

20

GeForce GTX 960 +25%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A310

30

GeForce GTX 960 +16%

35

Arc A310

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

GM206

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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