Intel Arc B580 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Intel Arc B580

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (190W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc B580 +142%

13.67 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Arc B580

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2024

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

-

2670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2375 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

456.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

80

ROPs

64

160

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

256 KB (per EU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

18 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

213.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

427.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

27.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.67 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

BMG-G21

GPU Name

Hawaii

SRPMF

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Xe2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

19.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

272 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.4

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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