Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+13865%
12.29 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GS
0.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Jul 2008
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
-
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
504 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.13GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
3072
Shading Units
32
192
TMUs
16
96
ROPs
8
384
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
88.00 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
40W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G96
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
G96-259-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
6 nm
Process Size
65 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
