Intel Arc Pro A50 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1607 MHz
  • Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 2350 MHz vs 1733 MHz
  • 542.4x more texture fill rate: 150.4 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 200x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 27 May 2016
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1607 MHz
Boost clock speed 2350 MHz vs 1733 MHz
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

  • 2.5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1024
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 886 vs 540
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15554 vs 5224
  • Around 67% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 55407 vs 33127
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2560 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 886 vs 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 15554 vs 5224
Geekbench - OpenCL 55407 vs 33127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
540
886
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5224
15554
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
33127
55407
Name Intel Arc Pro A50 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 540 886
PassMark - G3D Mark 5224 15554
Geekbench - OpenCL 33127 55407
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7546

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A50 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 Pascal
Code name DG2-128 GP104
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 27 May 2016
Place in performance rating 262 265
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $439.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 43.72

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2350 MHz 1733 MHz
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,203 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.626 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.813 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 2560
Pixel fill rate 75.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 150.4 GTexel/s 277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 180 Watt
Transistor count 7200 million 7,200 million
CUDA cores 2560
Floating-point performance 8,873 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Width 2-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 10 GB/s
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready