Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Intel Arc A580

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2000MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +270%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2013

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

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

28

-

3072

Shading Units

1792

192

TMUs

112

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

103.6 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-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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