Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +354%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3072

Shading Units

1536

192

TMUs

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

28.16 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Antilles

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-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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