NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2000MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+572%
12.29 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
179
Arc A580
+983%
1940
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
3072
48
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
DG2-512
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
