Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

Intel Arc A780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2200MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A780 +261%

18.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Arc A780

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Alchemist(Arc 7)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2200 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1093 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

559.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

281.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

563.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

36.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

406 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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