Over two years in the past, Intel introduced it was coming into the GPU market to tackle Nvidia and AMD, and whereas Intel continues to be discovering its footing, it has now launched one other graphics card in its Arc sequence.
Introducing the brand new #IntelArc A580 graphics playing cards! Get able to degree up your gaming expertise with the most recent Intel Arc graphics card from ASRock, GUNNIR, and SPARKLE, out there at main retailers within the U.S., China, and Europe. https://t.co/rHIgJgLosB pic.twitter.com/Tj0ZopJCOp
— Intel Graphics (@IntelGraphics) October 10, 2023
Intel revealed the Arc A580 GPU, a budgeted desktop graphics card retailing for $179. The Arc A580 options 24 Xe cores and 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence regardless of a horny worth, making this, on paper, a horny GPU.
Tom’s {Hardware} factors out the Arc A580 is a quicker card price-wise, however the closest equal performance-wise is AMD’s Radeon RX 6600. The A580 is “usually” the quicker card, however the RX 6600 does fare higher in rasterization or changing a vector-based picture or object right into a raster or bitmap format. Extra apparently, Tom’s {Hardware} mentions the whereas the A580 is a good worth, for $10 extra you should purchase the A750 GPU.
Intel releasing the Arc A580 is stunning, as the corporate introduced its first lineup of desktop graphics playing cards final 12 months, however solely the A380, A750, and A770 GPUs noticed a launch, whereas the A580’s launch date data was absent. Both manner, the GPU is a 12 months late and isn’t an actual contender with AMD’s RX 7000 sequence or Nvidia’s RTX 40 sequence, particularly when Intel’s extra highly effective GPUs have hassle competing with those self same GPU SKUs.
Nonetheless, that is Intel’s first outing within the GPU market, and Intel has beforehand mentioned it’s enjoying the lengthy recreation. The corporate already introduced it has no less than three different generations deliberate, codenamed “Battlemage”, “Celestial”, and “Druid”.
Intel’s Arc A580 GPU is offered by way of three OEMs, with GUNNIR, ASRock, and SPARKLE making SKUs for the A580, as seen within the picture beneath.
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