Radeon R9 295X2 vs Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Arc A580
+114%
12290
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Oct 2023
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
3072
176
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
175W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
DG2-512
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
