Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Intel Arc A580

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3056 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +42279%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Apr 2007

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

-

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

3072

Shading Units

16

192

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

30W

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

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

G86

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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