NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel Arc A580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +409%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Arc A580 +376%

10889

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

192

Arc A580 +904%

1929

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Arc A580 +170%

27

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Arc A580 +80%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Arc A580 +100%

70

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

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

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

DG2-512

GM206-300-A1

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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