Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

Intel Arc A580 AMD Radeon R9 270X

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

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2000MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +357%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +515%

10889

Radeon R9 270X

1768

Arc A580

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Oct 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 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

-

SM Count

-

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

33.60 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Curacao

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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