Intel Arc A580 vs GeForce RTX 4060
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Intel Arc A580
DG2-512
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AD107
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A580 with 3072 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 4060 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A580
- Features 288 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 88% higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 272 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
- Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 35% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 69 vs 51 FPS
- 23% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 12.3 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 105 62 51 34 |
128 78 66 47 |
| The Witcher 3 | 114 97 68 37 |
143 117 82 44 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 140 101 72 35 |
208 157 111 58 |
| Far Cry 6 | 89 83 56 29 |
105 98 76 45 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 54 45 34 18 |
78 65 47 26 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 60 58 42 22 |
98 90 64 43 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 59 46 36 18 |
73 61 45 27 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 70 60 41 18 |
82 75 43 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 98 84 61 32 |
128 119 85 46 |
| 1080p High | 88 | 116 |
| 1080p Ultra | 71 | 96 |
| 1440p Ultra | 51 | 69 |
| 4K Ultra | 27 | 40 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10812 | 10615 |
| Solar Bay | 39946 | 49340 |
| Port Royal | 5628 | 6054 |
| Fire Strike | 25225 | 28540 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 21117 | 20610 |
| Night Raid | 103973 | 121368 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 135.5 img/sec | 186.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 76.3 img/sec | 112.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.81 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.37 Gpixels/sec | 5.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 6.43 Gpixels/sec | 4.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.8 Gpixels/sec | 1.34 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 417.1 Gpixels/sec | 446.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 17700.8 FPS | 14935.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 739 | 1036 |
| DirectX 11 | 71 FPS | 174 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 64 FPS | 76 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 4887 Ops/s | 9150 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Intel Arc A580
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 105636 |
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Cinebench 2024 | 10606 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 4014 | 7696 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 7656 | 13706 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 10138 | 23289 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 12636 | 31126 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 50065 | 78361 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 672 | 3315 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1569 | 3491 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 5323 | 9386 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 20334 | 36778 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 132558 | 148120 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Arc A580 and GeForce RTX 4060General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 10, 2023 | May 18, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $179 | $299 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Generation 12.7 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | DG2-512 | AD107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER | - Radeon RX 7700 XT |
| Successor | - Intel Arc B580 | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 13400 or above | - Intel Core i5 14600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (67th and 54th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 1830 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2000 MHz | 2460 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 3072 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 96 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | 384 | 96 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 24 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 24MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 192 GPixel/s | 118 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 384 GTexel/s | 236 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 175 W | 115 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 406 mm² | 159 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 21 billion | 18 billion |
| Transistor Density | 51.72 MTr/mm² | 113.21 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | - |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | - |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.0 | 1.4a |
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