GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 175W)
Arc A580 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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Arc A580
+213%
12290
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Arc A580
+197%
10855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Arc A580
+208%
5186
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Arc A580
+536%
1940
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Arc A580
+80%
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Arc A580
+50%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Arc A580
+75%
70
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
3072
104
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG2-512
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
398 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
