Arc A580 vs ATI Rage 128 PRO Ultra

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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-10066
Power efficiencyno data11.91
ArchitectureRage 4 (1998−1999)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRage 4 PRODG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 1999 (25 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 speed130 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors8 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rate0.26384.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.29 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs2192
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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slot2-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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed130 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.04 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 Connectors1x VGA1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 1999 10 October 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 6 nm

Arc A580 has an age advantage of 24 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Rage 128 PRO Ultra and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.


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