AMD FirePro W8100 vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W8100
4.219 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+191%
12.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2014
Release Date
Oct 2023
FirePro
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
3072
160
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
52.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
131.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
4.219 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
2.109 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
175W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
DG2-512
Hawaii GL40
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
