GPU Comparison

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Intel

GPU

Intel Arc A580

CORE STATE DG2-512

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2000 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Xe-HPG

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

2,229

369

geekbench_opencl

91,657

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

79,381

31,001

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

A580

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,072

1,664 -45.8%

Shaders

3,072

1,664 -45.8%

TMUs

192

104 -45.8%

ROPs

96

56 -41.7%

Execution Units

384

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Clocks

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

12.29 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1.536 TFLOPS (1:8)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

24.58 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

24

—

XMX Cores

384

—

Power

TDP

175 W

148 W

TDP (W)

175

148 -15.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Xe-HPG

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

DG2-512

GM204

Generation

Alchemist (Arc 5)

GeForce 900

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

21,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

406 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

53.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.6

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Xe Graphics

GeForce 700

Successor

Battlemage

GeForce 10

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