NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 67% (2000MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+399%
12.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
3072
64
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
DG2-512
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
