NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 6 PCIe
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
3072
12
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
5.100 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV41
GPU Name
DG2-512
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Curie
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.19 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
225 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
6.6
