Arc A370M vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated386
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.99
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGM206DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date26 November 2015 (9 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10241024
Core clock speed1176 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1201 MHz1550 MHz
Number of transistors2,940 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate76.8699.20
Floating-point processing power2.46 TFLOPS3.174 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1753 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.2 GB/s112.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2015 30 March 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm

Arc A370M has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 960 OEM and Arc A370M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 960 OEM is a desktop card while Arc A370M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
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