Intel Arc B580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 189% (2670MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (190W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc B580
+312%
13.67 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
3.315 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2024
Release Date
Jun 2012
Battlemage
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2670 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
2670 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
2375 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
456.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
1792
160
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
256 KB (per EU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
18 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
213.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
427.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
27.34 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.67 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
1.709 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
190W
TDP
200W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
BMG-G21
GPU Name
Tahiti
SRPMF
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO2
(215-0821282)
Xe2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
19.6 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
272 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.4
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
