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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Intel Arc A380

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 109.99

$ 259.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2272 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

34 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

352% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

461.06 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

38350 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 597

153rd of 597

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

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.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Arc A380 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Arc A380 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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