Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 4 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
2880 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+2476%
12.29 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Jun 2008
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Generation
GeForce 200
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
999 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
3072
Shading Units
192
192
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
28
384
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
182W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GT200
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
65 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
