NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 15 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +2476%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 200

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

192

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

DG2-512

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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