NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Intel Arc A580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2000MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +35%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6254

Arc A580 +74%

10889

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Arc A580 +35%

27

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Arc A580 +7%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +17%

82

Arc A580

70

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

38

Arc A580 +47%

56

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

80

Tensor Cores

384

20

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

DG2-512

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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