Intel Arc B580 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

Intel Arc B580

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 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 B580 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 167% (2670MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc B580 +233%

13.67 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Arc B580

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Dec 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2670 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2670 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

456.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

256 KB (per EU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

18 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

213.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

427.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

27.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.67 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

BMG-G21

GPU Name

Tahiti

SRPMF

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Xe2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

19.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

272 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.4

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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