AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Intel Arc A580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (2000MHz vs 1471MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +16%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6876

Arc A580 +58%

10912

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +11%

30

Arc A580

27

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +26%

57

Arc A580

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +24%

87

Arc A580

70

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Arc A580

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Oct 2023

Vega

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3072

224

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

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Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

DG2-512

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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