Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2000MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +573%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +482%

10889

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A580 +440%

27

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A580 +125%

45

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A580 +133%

70

GeForce GTX 950

30

Arc A580

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Aug 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

768

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM206

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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