Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Unknown

Jan 2015

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 7)

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

2200 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2200 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1093 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

16GB

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR6X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

128bit

Bandwidth

559.6GB/s

112.2GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

4096

1024

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

128

32

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

32

-

L2 Cache

16 MB

1024 KB

L1 Cache

-

48 KB (per SMM)

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

281.6 GPixel/s

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

563.2 GTexel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

36.04 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

18.02 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.253 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

DG2-512

GM206

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GM206-300-A1

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

21.7 billion

2.94 billion

Die Size

406 mm²

228 mm²

Board Design

TDP

200W

120W

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

1.3

Shader Model

6.6

6.4

CUDA

-

5.2

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

-

2,300

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

-

1,025

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

-

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

-

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

-

35

GTA 5 1080p

-

70