NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Arc A570M Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 2014

Aug 2023

Generation

GeForce 900

Alchemist

Type

Desktop

Mobile

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1300 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

4GB

8GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256bit

128bit

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

224.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

1664

2048

TMUs

104

128

ROPs

56

64

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

8 MB

Tensor Cores

-

256

RT Cores

-

16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

83.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

166.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

5.325 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

-

FP16 (half)

-

10.65 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

GM204

DG2-256

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

ACM-G12

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Generation 12.7

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

6 nm

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Unknown

Board Design

TDP

148W

75W

Suggested PSU

300 W

-

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

-

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

5.2

-

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

3,646

-

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

1,683

-

OctaneBench

77

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

15

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

30

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

40

-

Blender

305

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