Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Intel Arc A580

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +900%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2012

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

-

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

3072

Shading Units

768

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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