Arc A580 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated182
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Power efficiencyno data12.06
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameM58, R520DG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2006 (18 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 cores243072
Core clock speed8 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data384.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.29 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 10 October 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 6 nm

Arc A580 has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook card while Arc A580 is a desktop one.


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