RTX A2000 Max-Q vs Arc A580

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking184not rated
Place by popularity66not in top-100
Power efficiency11.91no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA106
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date10 October 2023 (1 year ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30722560
Core clock speed1700 MHz682 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHz1207 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate384.096.56
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS6.18 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs19280
Tensor Cores38480
Ray Tracing Cores2420

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s176.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0Portable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 October 2023 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 95 Watt

Arc A580 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A2000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 84.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A580 and RTX A2000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A580 is a desktop card while RTX A2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Arc A580
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