Thursday, August 18th 2022
Intel Arc A580 Hits AotS Benchmark Database, Roughly Matches RTX 3050
Intel Arc A580 is an upcoming entry-mainstream desktop graphics card based on the Xe-HPG "Alchemist" graphics architecture, and positioned between the A380 and A750. Based on the larger 6 nm DG2-512 silicon than the one powering the A380, the A580 is endowed with 16 Xe Cores, or double the SIMD muscle of the A380, with 2,048 unified shaders. The card enjoys 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit bus, which at 16 Gbps data-rate produces 256 GB/s bandwidth.
A leaked Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database entry reveals that the A580 scores roughly 95 FPS at 1080p on average, with 110 FPS in the normal batch, around 102 FPS in the medium batch, and around 78 FPS in the heavy batch. The benchmark used the Vulkan API, and an unknown 16-thread Intel processor with 32 GB of memory. These scores put the A580 roughly at par with the GeForce RTX 3050 "Ampere" in this test, which would make it a reasonable solution for playing popular online games at 1080p with medium-high settings, or AAA games at medium settings.
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AotS Benchmark database
A leaked Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database entry reveals that the A580 scores roughly 95 FPS at 1080p on average, with 110 FPS in the normal batch, around 102 FPS in the medium batch, and around 78 FPS in the heavy batch. The benchmark used the Vulkan API, and an unknown 16-thread Intel processor with 32 GB of memory. These scores put the A580 roughly at par with the GeForce RTX 3050 "Ampere" in this test, which would make it a reasonable solution for playing popular online games at 1080p with medium-high settings, or AAA games at medium settings.
37 Comments on Intel Arc A580 Hits AotS Benchmark Database, Roughly Matches RTX 3050
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I think everyone thought that money = success in the GPU space, while discounting how much experience AMD/nvidia have in this arena already. Without their patents and engineers it's not as easy as one would think.
Intel does have some of the best engineers and resources around, if not THE best, I just assumed they would come out swinging so to speak, I was wrong is all, no big deal.
Hopefully they can catch up in the coming years, but I am not confident anymore.
And please stop making that inane comparison to AMD's GPU woes over half a decade ago, or even with RDNA1. Intel is not attempting to compete with AMD in 2016 or 2019, they are attempting to compete with AMD and NVIDIA in 2022, and today both the latter companies are offering objectively better-performing products with objectively better drivers for objectively less money.
The market doesn't care how hard Intel is or isn't trying, or that Intel may or may not eventually deliver a decent product in a few months' or years' time. The market only cares whether Intel delivers a product that provides a compelling alternative to competitors right now. And Intel has completely failed at that, just like they failed with 10nm CPUs. In that case they had massive marketshare to fall back on, and still lost a significant amount of it to AMD; in Arc's case they have quite literally nothing to fall back on.
Noone will believe them anymore