GeForce GTX 960 vs Arc A780
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM Arc A780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)
Arc A780 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2200MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2413
Arc A780
+646%
18020
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
2200 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2200 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1093 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
559.6GB/s
Render Config
1024
Shading Units
4096
64
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
512
-
RT Cores
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
281.6 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
563.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
36.04 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.02 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.253 TFLOPS
Board Design
120W
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
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
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
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
