AMD Radeon R9 270X vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 10 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2000MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +357%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

Arc A580 +514%

10875

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

180W

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

Curacao

GPU Name

DG2-512

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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