Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

Intel Arc A580 AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +725%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Oct 2010

Alchemist

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

-

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

3072

Shading Units

960

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Barts

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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