Radeon R9 295X2 vs Arc B580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2670MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (190W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Arc B580
+138%
13670
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Dec 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2670 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2670 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
456.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
2560
176
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
20
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
18 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
213.6 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
427.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.34 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.67 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.709 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
190W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
BMG-G21
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
SRPMF
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
272 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
