AMD Radeon R7 260X vs Intel Arc A580

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AMD Radeon R7 260X Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +523%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Arc A580 +637%

10889

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3072

56

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

DG2-512

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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