Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2000MHz vs 1770MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+171%
12.29 TFLOPS
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Blender
Arc A580
+115%
1940
A2
902
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Nov 2021
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
3072
Shading Units
1280
192
TMUs
40
96
ROPs
32
384
Tensor Cores
40
24
RT Cores
10
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
60W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA107
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
406 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
