Intel Arc A380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

Intel Arc A380

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc A380 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 A380 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2050MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A380 +7%

4.198 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A380 +14%

4168

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Blender

Arc A380 +71%

524

GeForce GTX 970

305

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A380

10

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A380

28

GeForce GTX 970 +7%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A380

40

GeForce GTX 970

40

Arc A380

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Alchemist(Arc 3)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2050 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

186.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

128

Tensor Cores

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

131.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

8.397 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.198 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1050 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

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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