AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs Intel Arc A580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800S and Intel Arc A580 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Intel Arc A580

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 175 Watt
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15757 vs 11903

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Boost clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 175 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15757 vs 11903

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A580

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 326.4 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel/s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 744 vs 724
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91409 vs 73115
Around 32% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2229 vs 1689

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	326.4 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	744 vs 724
Geekbench - OpenCL	91409 vs 73115
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2229 vs 1689

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800S
GPU 2: Intel Arc A580

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

724

744

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15757

11903

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

73115

91409

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1689

2229

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6800S	Intel Arc A580
PassMark - G2D Mark	724	744
PassMark - G3D Mark	15757	11903
Geekbench - OpenCL	73115	91409
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1689	2229

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6800S	Intel Arc A580
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Generation 12.7
Code name	Navi 23	DG2-512
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	2022
Place in performance rating	146	149
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2100 MHz	1700 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	537.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	17.20 TFLOPS (2:1)	20.89 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.602 TFLOPS	10.44 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	3072
Pixel fill rate	134.4 GPixel/s	163.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	268.8 GTexel/s	326.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	21700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6