NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel Arc A310

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Intel Arc A310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Arc A310 +11%

2.688 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

Arc A310 +151%

475

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960 +42%

10

Arc A310

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960 +25%

25

Arc A310

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960 +16%

35

Arc A310

30

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1750 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

DG2-128

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

157 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

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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