NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Arc A780

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Intel Arc A780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Arc A780 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 200W)

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2200MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Arc A780 +359%

18.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Arc A780

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

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

2200 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2200 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1093 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

559.6GB/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

281.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

563.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.04 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.02 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.253 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

200W

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

2x 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

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