Intel Arc A580
Often rooting for the little guy, Jarred Walton wonders what Intel’s up to.
When we say good performance, we don’t really mean high power consumption, too.
CREDIT: Sparkle
The Intel Arc A580 is finally here. Announced in 2022, we initially expected to see the card go on sale in early 2023. Functionally, it looks very much like the A750 and A770 8GB. The key difference is that four additional Xe-Cores have been disabled, along with the accompanying shaders and XMX units. It still has the full 256-bit memory interface, with the same 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM as the earlier Arc offerings.
Right off the bat, the problem the A580 faces is that the street prices on the A750 is as low as £210, just £15 or so more than the launch price of the A580. Compounding this is the fact that Nvidia’s cheapest cards, the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060, are £220 and £280. The A580 should easily beat the 3050, but the 3060 offers entry into the Nvidia ecosystem and better overall performance. On the AMD side, you have the £200 RX 6600, the non-XT model. So even before testing, the A580 has an uphill struggle.