NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel Arc A770
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM Arc A770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
Intel Arc A770 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 104% (2400MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
Arc A770
+714%
19.66 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
Arc A770
+489%
13560
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Arc A770
+536%
6525
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
Arc A770
+1112%
2292
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 960
10
Arc A770
+350%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 960
25
Arc A770
+220%
80
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
35
Arc A770
+200%
105
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Oct 2022
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
2100 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/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
307.2 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
614.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.32 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.66 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.458 TFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
225W
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
1x 6-pin + 1x 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
