Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2023
May 2013
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
3072
768
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
16
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12
L1 Cache
-
16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-512
Saturn
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Saturn XT
Architecture
Generation 12.7
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.7 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
406 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.3