Intel Arc A580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2023
Oct 2010
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
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Boost Clock
2000 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
3072
1120
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
384
—
RT Cores
24
—
L2 Cache
8 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
14
L1 Cache
—
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
DG2-512
Barts
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
40 nm
Transistors
21.7 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
406 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
151W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.