AMD Radeon R9 290 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +153%

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

Arc A580 +195%

10875

Radeon R9 290

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3072

160

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

DG2-512

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

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

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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