NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Arc A770
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Arc A770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 225W)
Intel Arc A770 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 104% (2400MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Arc A770
+401%
19.66 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Arc A770
+271%
13560
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Arc A770
+287%
6525
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Arc A770
+651%
2292
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Arc A770
+200%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Arc A770
+166%
80
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Arc A770
+162%
105
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2100 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
4096
104
TMUs
256
56
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
512
-
RT Cores
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
307.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
614.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.32 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.66 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.458 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-512
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
398 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
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
