Intel Arc B580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

Intel Arc B580

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock2670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc B580 +506%

13.67 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Arc B580

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2024

Release Date

Dec 2010

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2670 MHz

Base Clock

-

2670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

456.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

256 KB (per EU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

18 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

213.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

427.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

27.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.67 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

BMG-G21

GPU Name

Cayman

SRPMF

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Xe2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

19.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

272 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.4

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

2

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

4

Intel Arc B580 vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

5

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

6

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

7

Intel Arc B580 vs AMD FirePro S9100

8

Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA CMP 50HX

9

Intel Arc B580 vs ATI Radeon HD 4450

10

Intel Arc B580 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption