Arc A580 vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated182
Place by popularitynot in top-100100
Power efficiencyno data12.45
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRV530DG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 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 coresno data3072
Core clock speed590 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors157 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rate2.360384.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.29 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs4192
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex2x 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 amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1380 MBps2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.08 GB/s512.0 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 Connectors2x DVI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.6
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 6 nm

Arc A580 has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1600 XT Dual and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.


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