Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

Intel Arc A580 AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 100% (2000MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +200%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +365%

10889

Radeon R9 280X

2339

Arc A580

VS

Radeon R9 280X

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

850 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/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

32.00 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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