Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
3008 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+6301%
12.29 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Dec 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
266 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
3072
Shading Units
64
192
TMUs
32
96
ROPs
16
384
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G94
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
65 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
240 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
