Arc A580 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated184
Place by popularitynot in top-10067
Power efficiencyno data11.91
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA104DG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)10 October 2023 (1 year 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 cores51203072
Core clock speed780 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speed1290 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate206.4384.0
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS12.29 TFLOPS
ROPs8096
TMUs160192
Tensor Cores160384
Ray Tracing Cores4024

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
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 Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 10 October 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 3070 Max-Q has 118.8% lower power consumption.

Arc A580, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is a notebook card while Arc A580 is a desktop one.


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