Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (2200MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A780

18.02 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +12%

20.31 TFLOPS

Arc A780

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2020

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2200 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2200 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1093 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

559.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

5888

256

TMUs

184

128

ROPs

96

512

Tensor Cores

184

32

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

281.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

563.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

36.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA104

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

220W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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