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Intel Arc A580 vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Intel Arc A580
VS
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Intel Arc A580
DG2-512
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
TU116

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A580 8 GB with 3072 shaders against the 4 years older GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
6 GB GDDR6
51.1
(Average)
Value Index
35.7
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1660 SUPER over Arc A580
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A580
  • Performs significantly better (up to 63%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.3 vs 5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Shows 28% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 51 vs 40 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 24 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Arc A580
vs
GTX 1660 SUPER

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
105
62
51
34
86
51
43
25
The Witcher 3
114
97
68
37
83
65
47
26
Counter-Strike 2
140
101
72
35
133
93
68
29
Far Cry 6
89
83
56
29
70
62
46
24
Hogwarts Legacy
54
45
34
18
46
36
26
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
60
58
42
22
55
44
31
19
Ghost of Tsushima
59
46
36
18
41
34
26
12
Cyberpunk 2077
70
60
41
18
44
40
22
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
84
61
32
77
71
47
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 71
1080p Ultra 71 55
1440p Ultra 51 40
4K Ultra 27 20
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Arc A580 +63%
9220
GTX 1660 SUPER
5672
Time Spy 10812 6042
Solar Bay 39946 19265
Port Royal 5628 1547
Fire Strike 25225 16189
Wild Life Extreme 21117 12334
Night Raid 103973 74735
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc A580 +34%
89982
GTX 1660 SUPER
67074
Background Blur 135.5 img/sec 122.5 img/sec
Face Detection 76.3 img/sec 68.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.81 Gpixels/sec 2.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.37 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.43 Gpixels/sec 3.21 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.8 Gpixels/sec 0.86 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 417.1 Gpixels/sec 273.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 17700.8 FPS 8476.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Arc A580
12037
GTX 1660 SUPER +5%
12662
G2D Mark 739 807
DirectX 11 71 FPS 104 FPS
DirectX 12 64 FPS 50 FPS
GPU Compute 4887 Ops/s 5033 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 340 & 22253 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Arc A580 +143%
1860.18
GTX 1660 SUPER
766.29
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 113 & 871 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Arc A580
9364
GTX 1660 SUPER +9%
10238
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc A580 +18%
9631
GTX 1660 SUPER
8153
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 4014 4278
Image Segmentation (HP) 7656 5856
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10138 9561
Face Detection (HP) 12636 9830
Pose Estimation (Q) 50065 36109
Text Classification (SP) 672 1858
Machine Translation (HP) 1569 3286
Object Detection (SP) 5323 5151
Depth Estimation (Q) 20334 18021
Style Transfer (SP) 132558 73708
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc A580 and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 10, 2023 October 29, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $179 $229
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.7 Turing
GPU Codename DG2-512 TU116
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Intel Arc B580 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13400 or above - Intel Core i5 9500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (66th and 74th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 2000 MHz 1785 MHz
Shading Units 3072 1408
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 22
Tensor Cores 384 No
Ray-tracing Cores 24 No
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 192 GPixel/s 86 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 384 GTexel/s 157 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc A580 +146%
12.3 TFLOPS
GTX 1660 SUPER
5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 175 W 125 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 12 nm
Die Size 406 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 21 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 51.72 MTr/mm² 21.13 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Arc A580 +52%
512 GB/s
GTX 1660 SUPER
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.0 1.4a

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