GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc Pro A60
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM Arc Pro A60 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc Pro A60 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2050MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Arc Pro A60
+114%
8397
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Arc Pro A60
+102%
7385
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Arc Pro A60
+115%
3623
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2050 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
2048
104
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
131.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
262.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.79 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.397 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-256
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G12
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
11.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
269 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
