Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Arc A580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking184not rated
Place by popularity66not in top-100
Power efficiency11.91no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date10 October 2023 (1 year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores30722560
Core clock speed1700 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate384.0162.0
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs19280
Tensor Cores38480
Ray Tracing Cores2420

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 2.0Portable Device Dependent
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 Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 October 2023 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 35 Watt

Arc A580 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A580 and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A580 is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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