AMD Radeon RX 580 vs Intel Arc A380
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AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Intel Arc A380
DG2-128
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 580 8 GB with 2304 shaders against the 4 years and 10 months newer Intel Arc A380 6 GB that utilizes 1024 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 Radeon RX 580
- Performs better (up to 21%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 35% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 27 vs 20 FPS
- 48% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.2 vs 4.2 TFLOPS)
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Has 38% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 186 GB/s
- Has 2.3x more shading units (2304 vs 1024)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A380
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 8 dedicated RT cores
- Features 128 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 76 39 31 17 |
58 31 24 14 |
| The Witcher 3 | 50 41 22 12 |
49 37 26 12 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 74 55 38 15 |
51 38 26 12 |
| Far Cry 6 | 59 49 35 17 |
41 37 24 11 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 34 26 20 9 |
18 14 10 - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 48 42 27 15 |
31 29 19 13 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 33 23 19 10 |
26 20 13 - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 33 27 16 - |
26 23 12 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 60 52 32 15 |
42 38 23 14 |
| 1080p High | 52 | 38 |
| 1080p Ultra | 39 | 30 |
| 1440p Ultra | 27 | 20 |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | 10 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4354 | 4231 |
| Solar Bay | - | 14981 |
| Port Royal | 527 | 1495 |
| Fire Strike | 14980 | 9945 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 8907 | 7811 |
| Night Raid | 56859 | 49170 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 59.5 img/sec | 81.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 33.8 img/sec | 38.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.56 Gpixels/sec | 1.18 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.1 Gpixels/sec | 1.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | 2.45 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.33 Gpixels/sec | 0.46 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 161.8 Gpixels/sec | 146.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5395.1 FPS | 7107.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 770 | 639 |
| DirectX 11 | 60 FPS | 37 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 43 FPS | 35 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 3409 Ops/s | 2780 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
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) | 3143 | 3198 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3955 | 3938 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 7872 | 5735 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 11922 | 5634 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 41162 | 20620 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1199 | 798 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1773 | 1098 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3620 | 3460 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 13995 | 11598 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 84083 | 55429 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and Intel Arc A380General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 18, 2017 | January 14, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $229 | $139 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Generation 12.7 |
| GPU Codename | Polaris 20 | DG2-128 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce GTX 1060 | - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 8500 or above | - Intel Core i5 12400 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (83rd and 86th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1257 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1340 MHz | 2050 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 144 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 128 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 8 |
| L1 Cache | 16KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 43 GPixel/s | 66 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 193 GTexel/s | 131 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 185 W | 75 W |
| Manufacturing | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 14 nm | 6 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 157 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion | 7 billion |
| Transistor Density | 21.55 MTr/mm² | 44.59 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1937 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 8000 Mbps | 15500 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 96-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 2.0 |
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