Intel Arc A770 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A770 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A770 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2400MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A770
+294%
19.66 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
4.981 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Arc A770
+210%
13560
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Arc A770
+218%
6525
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Arc A770
+150%
45
GeForce GTX 980
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Arc A770
+128%
80
GeForce GTX 980
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Arc A770
+69%
105
GeForce GTX 980
62
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Sep 2014
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2100 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2400 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
2048
256
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
-
32
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
307.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
614.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
39.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
2.458 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
165W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GM204
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
GM204-400-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
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
