Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

Intel Arc A580

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 18 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Arc A580

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Sep 2005

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

-

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

-

192

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

8

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

NV42

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

110 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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