Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +213%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +201%

10912

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Blender

Arc A580 +538%

1929

GeForce GTX 970

302

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A580 +80%

27

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A580 +50%

45

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A580 +75%

70

GeForce GTX 970

40

Arc A580

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1664

192

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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