Arc B580: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Arc B580 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 40.55% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
Intel started Arc B580 sales 12 December 2024 at a recommended price of $249 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Xe2 architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 12 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 456.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 272 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 190 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Arc B580: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 100 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 94.55 | |
| Power efficiency | 14.79 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Xe2 (2024) | |
| GPU code name | BMG-G21 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 December 2024 (less than a year ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
Arc B580's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arc B580's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 2670 MHz | |
| Boost clock speed | 2670 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 19,600 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 190 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 427.2 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 13.67 TFLOPS | of 104.8 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 80 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 160 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 20 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arc B580 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| Length | 272 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Arc B580: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 12 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2375 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 456.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Arc B580. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1 | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Arc B580, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.4 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Arc B580. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Arc B580 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 124 | |
| 1440p | 69 | |
| 4K | 43 |
Cost per frame, $
| 1080p | 2.01 | |
| 1440p | 3.61 | |
| 4K | 5.79 |
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