Intel has finally released its long-awaited graphics card, the Arc A580. At a price of around 220 euros, this card competes with the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, making it an interesting option for people who want to build a new PC soon.
Specifications and performance of the Intel Arc A580
The Intel Arc A580 uses the same ACM-G10 graphics chip as its predecessors, the A750 and A770. This chip activates 24 of the 32 Xe cores, which corresponds to 384 of the 512 vector engines. With a boost clock of 1.7 GHz, the card reaches a speed of approximately 10.4 trillion calculation steps per second (TFlops), giving an advantage of approximately 16 percent over the Radeon RX 6600 and +12 percent over the GeForce RTX 3050.
In terms of memory, the Arc A580 features 8GB of GDDR6 RAM coupled with 256 data lines with an impressive transfer speed of 512GB/s. The PCI Express interface runs on PCIe 4.0 with 16 lanes, and the card supports up to four connected displays with HDMI 2.0b (max. 4K60), DisplayPort 1.4 or DisplayPort 2.0 in UHBR10 mode (8K60).
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Ray tracing
While no proprietary benchmarks are available yet, data provided by Intel shows that the Arc A580 delivers better performance in ray tracing games compared to its competitors. The card performs comparable to the GeForce RTX 3050 and slightly lower than the Radeon RX 6600 in games with DX11 and DX12 graphics. Still, there are exceptions, as seen in games like “Ghostwire: Tokyo,” where the A580 performs 50 percent better.
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Also suitable for video editing
In a blogpost Intel has announced that the A580, like all other Intel Arc graphics cards, comes with full content creation capabilities as standard. This means the card features AV1 video encoding hardware, AI acceleration with XMX engines, and the streaming studio within the Arc Control software. As a result, according to Intel, you can use this new card to generate art using AI.
Intel has stated that one of the biggest challenges in video editing is waiting for output files to be encoded. Thanks to a new development in encoding capabilities, Intel Arc graphics cards can now encode faster by using double encoding. With this technique, both Multi-Format Codec Engines (MFXs) on the Intel Arc A580 are used to encode videos. According to Intel, this leads to a time saving of 35% compared to regular encoding. Currently, this technology is being implemented in various applications
Energy consumption of the Intel Arc A580
The Arc A580’s power consumption is a major concern, as it is significantly higher at 185 watts compared to the 130 watts of its competitors. This may affect the card’s cooling and performance depending on the user’s case and cooling system.
Future Outlook
While the card is available now, it will be interesting to see how it will hold up in the competitive graphics card market. The Arc A580 certainly offers an attractive option for gamers looking for performance at a reasonable price, but independent tests and benchmarks have yet to assess the actual performance and user experience of this new graphics card from Intel.
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2023-10-16 14:40:20
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