NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Arc

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs Intel Arc, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00
$ 99.99
$ 269.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
2921 points
29% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
73 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
45 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
48 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
27 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
360% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
792 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
398.06 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
29914 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
31247 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
158th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Arc GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Arc is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.

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