![]() There's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on offer, across a wide 256-bit memory bus, which paired with its 16 Gbps memory speed, yields 512 GB/s of memory bandwidth, the highest in the market segment. The most interesting aspect of the A580 is that it gets the same exact memory sub-system as the A750. This works out to 384 execution units, which are worth 3,072 unified shaders, 384 XMX cores, 24 Ray Tracing Engines, 192 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The new SKU is endowed with 24 out of the 32 Xe Cores physically present on the silicon, across 6 out of 8 Render Slices. Intel carved the Arc A580 out of the same 6 nm ACM-G10 silicon powering the company's Arc 7 series. The GPU also features XMX a dedicated matrix math accelerator that makes these GPUs AI processing powerhouses, something Intel leverages for its XeSS performance enhancement that's technologically at par with DLSS 2. The GPUs also feature a real time ray tracing engine that's technically more advanced than the one AMD uses, with hardware acceleration for even more stages of the ray tracing, full asynchrony with ray tracing, and shader re-ordering. ![]() The Arc A580 is based on the Xe-HPG Alchemist graphics architecture, which is a thorough, grounds-up attempt by Intel to engineer a contemporary discrete GPU that isn't missing out on any kind of feature compared to the latest GeForce RTX and Radeon RX GPUs. ![]() This has been done with dozens of game-specific improvements, as well as API-specific uplifts for DirectX 11 and DirectX 9, which are still relevant for popular e-sports titles. Why Intel decided to launch the A580 now, nearly a year after its Arc 7-series debut, can be explained with two distinct theories: first, prices of graphics cards are finally cooling down, which brought 1080p-class graphics cards down to around $250, presenting Intel with an opportunity to undercut products such as the GeForce RTX 3050 and Radeon RX 6600 at $180 Intel has taken huge strides over the past year towards upgrading the software backbone of its Arc GPUs, which effectively push each product a segment above. ![]()
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