GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc A380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 186.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Arc A380 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2050MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Arc A380
+7%
4198
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Arc A380
+17%
4277
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Arc A380
+19%
2017
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Arc A380
+71%
524
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
+50%
15
Arc A380
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
+7%
30
Arc A380
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Arc A380
40
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2050 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
186.0GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
1024
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.397 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.198 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1050 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 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 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-128
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
157 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
