Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (2670MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc B580
+212%
13.67 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
4.375 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2024
Release Date
Apr 2017
Battlemage
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2670 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2670 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
2375 MHz
Memory Clock
2257 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
456.0GB/s
Bandwidth
216.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
2560
Shading Units
1280
160
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
160
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
256 KB (per EU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
18 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
213.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
427.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
27.34 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
13.67 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.709 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
190W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
BMG-G21
GPU Name
GP106
SRPMF
GPU Variant
GP106-410-A1
Xe2
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
19.6 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
272 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
