Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

Intel Arc B580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 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 B580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 127% (2670MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc B580 +248%

13.67 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Arc B580

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2670 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2670 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

456.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2560

Shading Units

1664

160

TMUs

104

80

ROPs

56

160

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

256 KB (per EU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

18 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

213.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

427.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

27.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.67 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

BMG-G21

GPU Name

GM204

SRPMF

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Xe2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

19.6 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

272 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

1.4

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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