A2 PCIe vs Arc A580

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking185not rated
Place by popularity67not in top-100
Power efficiency11.91no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA107
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date10 October 2023 (1 year ago)10 November 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30721280
Core clock speed1700 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate384.070.80
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS4.531 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs19240
Tensor Cores38440
Ray Tracing Cores2410

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1563 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s200.1 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 October 2023 10 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 60 Watt

Arc A580 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

A2 PCIe, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 191.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A580 and A2 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A580 is a desktop card while A2 PCIe is a workstation one.


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