Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

Intel Arc A580

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 11 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +419%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +578%

10875

Radeon R9 270

1603

Arc A580

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Nov 2013

Alchemist(Arc 5)

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

925 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

3072

Shading Units

1280

192

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Curacao

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

212 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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