Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc A580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A580

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Around 4% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2944
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 215 Watt

Launch date	2022 vs 20 September 2018
Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Pipelines	3072 vs 2944
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 215 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1700 MHz
7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 912 vs 723
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18816 vs 11523
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 102535 vs 85896

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	912 vs 723
PassMark - G3D Mark	18816 vs 11523
Geekbench - OpenCL	102535 vs 85896

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A580
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

723

912

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11523

18816

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

85896

102535

Name	Intel Arc A580	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
PassMark - G2D Mark	723	912
PassMark - G3D Mark	11523	18816
Geekbench - OpenCL	85896	102535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		10966

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A580	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Turing
Code name	DG2-512	TU104
Launch date	2022	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	102	97
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$749.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	1710 MHz
Core clock speed	1700 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.89 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.44 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	2944
Pixel fill rate	163.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	326.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	21700 million	13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6