NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 94% (2000MHz vs 1032MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
2112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660
1.981 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+520%
12.29 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 660
1194
Arc A580
+809%
10855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 660
260
Arc A580
+1894%
5186
Blender
GeForce GTX 660
111
Arc A580
+1647%
1940
Graphics Card
Sep 2012
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 600
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
3072
80
TMUs
192
24
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK106
GPU Name
DG2-512
GK106-400-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.54 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
221 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
