Intel Arc A310 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

Intel Arc A310

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

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

Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +45%

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Arc A310 +55%

475

GeForce GTX 970

305

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A310

7

GeForce GTX 970 +114%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A310

20

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A310

30

GeForce GTX 970 +33%

40

Arc A310

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

768

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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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