Newly leaked benchmarks for the Intel Arc A580 graphics card apparently showcase not solely its take a look at outcomes however what these outcomes imply in comparison with its potential competitors.
In response to the leaked benchmark knowledge from Geekbench (and reported on by Wccftech), the Arc A580 has 24 cores, 384 EUs, and 3072 ALUs, with a clock pace of as much as 2.4 GHz, which matches the Arc A770 and Arc A750 graphics playing cards. The A580 additionally options 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus, with as much as 512 GB/s bandwidth and a TBP of 175W.
Because it seems, the numbers for the Arc A580 are on par with AMD’s semi-budget Radeon RX 7600 card. It scored 82,992 factors throughout the OpenCL benchmark assessments. This places its outcomes barely larger than the AMD RX 7600 which scores round 82,981 factors. In the meantime, the Nvidia RTX 3060 is simply 6.5% quicker than the Arc A580. With the ability to match each playing cards is very spectacular contemplating that the RTX 3060 and the RX 7600 are simply among the greatest graphics playing cards on the market.
The benchmark outcomes present us the take a look at setup, which included an Intel Core i7-1270 processor, 32 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, and the ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E Gaming WIFI motherboard. Sadly, we don’t have a launch date or pricing but, so we’ll have to attend for affirmation from Intel for any official information.
Intel might come out swinging
What makes these take a look at outcomes even higher shouldn’t be solely that the A580 performs simply in addition to the RTX 3060 and RX 7600 however that it’s going to nearly definitely be at a less expensive worth level. The Intel Arc A750 GPU has an official MSRP of $249, with reductions dipping it decrease than $200. Going by this, the A580 will most probably begin off as little as $199, and reductions would drop that even decrease, doubtlessly under $150.
There’s additionally the large Arc Alchemist graphics playing cards driver replace, because it was reported earlier in 2023 that Intel tracked down the supply of a serious efficiency bottleneck and stuck the problem, and has rolled out a number of patches for the broader Arc ecosystem since then.
If this conjecture seems to be true, then we might have an especially standard graphics card amongst avid gamers who’ve been ready for a real finances card. This may be a superb alternative for Intel to develop its market share since each Nvidia and AMD have been slacking on low-end graphics card releases this gen.
This leak additionally comes on the rumor coattails of a potential Alchemist+ refresh, which is predicted to launch sooner or later, although no different particulars are identified proper now. However the A580 might completely launch then, which might increase its recognition and gross sales even additional. We’ll simply must see what Intel plans on doing for 2023 and past.