Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 2 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +224%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Aug 2012

Alchemist

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

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3072

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

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

29.60 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

New Zealand

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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