The Intel Arc A580 desktop graphics card was launched by the company earlier this week. According to the American chipmaker, the new mid-range GPU is aimed at creators and gamers. Gamers will be able to play popular games at full 1080p resolution at high settings using the new Intel Arc A580 GPU. According to the details shared by the company, it will also provide high frame rates for esports games. At the same time, the graphics card will also support Intel XeSS and hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
The Intel Arc A580, announced a few months ago, has finally hit the global market. This graphics card has 24 Xe cores and 24 ray tracing units. The company says it has a peak clock speed of 1,700MHz, 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, and a memory bandwidth of 512GB/s.
The new Intel Arc 5 series graphics cards for desktops have a total board power (TBP) of 185W. It has a slightly less powerful version of the GPU found on Intel’s more expensive Arc A770 and A750 GPUs.
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The product page for the Intel Arc A580 states that it can deliver high frame rates for popular games at 1080p resolution. For example, in Diablo IV and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, it delivered 155 fps and 119 fps respectively. According to Intel, Baldur’s Gate III and Cyberpunk 2077 (with XeSS and ray tracing) run at 90 fps and 85 fps respectively.
The chipmaker also touts the Arc A580 GPU’s artificial intelligence capabilities. These include workloads involving on-device generative AI tasks, such as running stable diffusion. It will also support Intel’s XeSS AI-based image upscaling technology, which relies on the company’s Intel Xe Matrix Extensions (Intel XMX) AI technology.
According to the company, the new Intel A580 graphics card starts at $179 (approximately Rs. 14,900). The new mid-range graphics cards are now available from manufacturers such as ASRock, Gunnir and Sparkle in regions where other Arc GPUs such as the Intel Arc 750 and Intel Arc A770 are sold.
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