AMD Radeon RX 480 vs Intel Arc B580

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

Intel Arc B580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2670MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Arc B580 +134%

13.67 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Arc B580

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2024

Arctic Islands

Generation

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

2670 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2670 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

456.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB (per EU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

18 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

213.6 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

427.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.34 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.67 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.709 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

BMG-G21

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

SRPMF

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Xe2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

19.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

272 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.4

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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