NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Arc A380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs Intel Arc A380, 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
$ 109.99
$ 259.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
3050 points
34% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
65 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
47 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
47 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
29 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
352% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
806 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
461.06 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
38350 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
36712 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
250% significantly higher core clock speed
300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2000 MHz
69% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width
96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
20% slightly higher memory bandwidth
186 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
75 W
93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate
64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
128 Gigatexels/s
4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
4.10 TFLOPS
4% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
62% significantly more shading units
1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
62% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
75% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
153rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2022 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Arc A380 comparison

For gaming, the Arc A380 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Arc A380 over the GeForce GTX 970.

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