RTX A5000-8Q vs Arc A580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking182not rated
Place by popularity82not in top-100
Power efficiency12.06no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
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 cores30728192
Core clock speed1700 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate384.0433.9
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs192256
Tensor Cores384256
Ray Tracing Cores2464

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-pin

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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s768.0 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 2.04x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 230 Watt

Arc A580 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 31.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A580 and RTX A5000-8Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A580 is a desktop card while RTX A5000-8Q is a workstation one.


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