Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 115% (2000MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +1190%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Arc A580

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Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Dec 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

3072

Shading Units

512

192

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Cape Verde

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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