Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 7 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+3100%
12.29 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Mar 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
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
3072
Shading Units
128
192
TMUs
64
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
38.40 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
197W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G92
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
65 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
324 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
