Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

Intel Arc A580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (2000MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +398%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2016

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

64

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

38.50 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM206S

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

950 OEM

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

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

6.7

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