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Intel Arc B370

vs

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Intel Arc B370 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Intel Arc B370

Newer Launch Date: January 2026 (January 2026 vs September 2014)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Higher Boost Clock: 1216MHz (2.4 GHz vs 1216MHz)
More Shading Units: 2048 (1280 vs 2048)

Basic

Intel

Label Name

NVIDIA

January 2026

Launch Date

September 2014

Integrated

Platform

Desktop

TSMC N3E

GPU Lithography

Intel Arc B370 GPU

Model Name

GeForce GTX 980

Arc B-Series

Generation

GeForce 900

Base Clock

1127MHz

2.4 GHz

Boost Clock

1216MHz

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Transistors

5,200 million

RT Cores

10 Xe-cores

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

128

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

3 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Xe3-LPG

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Memory Specifications

Memory Size

4GB

System Shared

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

256bit

Memory Clock

1753MHz

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

224.4 GB/s

Display and Media

Yes

AV1 Encode/Decode

Yes

H.264 Hardware Encode/Decode

Yes

H.265 HEVC Hardware Encode/Decode

Decode Only

H.266 VVC Hardware Encode/Decode

Yes

Intel Quick Sync Video

7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Max Resolution DP

3840 x 2400 @ 120Hz

Max Resolution eDP

Number of Displays Supported

eDP 1.5, DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20, HDMI 2.1 FRL

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Theoretical Performance

48 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

77.82 GPixel/s

96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

155.6 GTexel/s

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

155.6 GFLOPS

6.1 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

5.081 TFLOPS

AI Features

OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT, WebGPU, WebNN

AI Software Frameworks Supported by GPU

GPU Peak TOPS (Int8)

Yes

Intel Deep Learning Boost on GPU

Miscellaneous

1280

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

2048

640 KB

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

2MB

TDP

165W

1.4

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

CUDA

5.2

DirectX 12 Ultimate

DirectX

12 (12_1)

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

Shader Model

6.4

Suggested PSU

450W