NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (2000MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +278%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1999

Arc A580 +444%

10875

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 600

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

DG2-512

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Kepler

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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