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Intel Arc A770 vs GeForce GTX 1080

Intel Arc A770
VS
GeForce GTX 1080
Intel Arc A770
DG2-512
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A770 16 GB with 4096 shaders against the 6 years and 6 months older GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5X
67.4
(Good)
Value Index
20.7
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1080 over Arc A770
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A770
  • Performs significantly better (up to 74%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (19.7 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 35% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 49 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Arc A770
vs
GTX 1080

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
119
77
64
50
103
60
50
33
The Witcher 3
147
126
91
46
106
84
60
31
Counter-Strike 2
162
114
82
42
160
114
85
38
Far Cry 6
108
98
75
41
85
75
56
29
Hogwarts Legacy
69
57
45
22
58
48
32
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
80
81
58
37
71
62
43
27
Ghost of Tsushima
69
58
45
25
55
42
31
18
Cyberpunk 2077
86
77
53
24
56
53
31
14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
105
81
43
95
83
57
30
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 106 88
1080p Ultra 88 69
1440p Ultra 66 49
4K Ultra 37 26
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Arc A770 +74%
12635
GTX 1080
7282
Time Spy 13554 7592
Solar Bay 51133 19994
Port Royal 7236 1676
Fire Strike 34120 22750
Wild Life Extreme 26276 15147
Night Raid 122449 82345
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc A770 +78%
113935
GTX 1080
63994
Background Blur 175 img/sec 152.4 img/sec
Face Detection 98 img/sec 71.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.63 Gpixels/sec 2.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.51 Gpixels/sec 4.15 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.51 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.89 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 492.6 Gpixels/sec 238.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 24819.2 FPS 6716.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Arc A770
n/a
GTX 1080
3895

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Arc A770
13351
GTX 1080 +17%
15609
G2D Mark 760 889
DirectX 11 78 FPS 125 FPS
DirectX 12 74 FPS 55 FPS
GPU Compute 5820 Ops/s 7627 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1790 & 42364 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Arc A770 +238%
2047.42
GTX 1080
606.47
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 795 & 1005 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Arc A770 +43%
13344
GTX 1080
9341
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc A770 +55%
14119
GTX 1080
9110
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc A770 +48%
10082
GTX 1080
6830
Image Classification (SP) 5750 2591
Image Segmentation (HP) 16175 5497
Image Super Resolution (Q) 12997 11914
Face Detection (HP) 21409 9841
Pose Estimation (Q) 67820 53922
Text Classification (SP) 849 1732
Machine Translation (HP) 2627 2662
Object Detection (SP) 7465 3255
Depth Estimation (Q) 24186 16431
Style Transfer (SP) 183238 112226
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc A770 and GeForce GTX 1080

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 12, 2022 May 27, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Generation 12.7 Pascal
GPU Codename DG2-512 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5080
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (51st and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2100 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 2400 MHz 1733 MHz
Shading Units 4096 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores 512 No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 No
L1 Cache - 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 16MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 307 GPixel/s 111 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 614 GTexel/s 277 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc A770 +121%
19.7 TFLOPS
GTX 1080
8.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 225 W 180 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 16 nm
Die Size 406 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 21 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 51.72 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1251 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Arc A770 +60%
512 GB/s
GTX 1080
320.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
5 (62.5%)
3 (37.5%)
Total votes: 8

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