Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+118%
12.29 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Oct 2013
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
-
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
2816
192
TMUs
176
96
ROPs
64
384
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
290W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Hawaii
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Generation 12.7
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
