The Intel Arc A580 graphics card has finally broken cover
It's been over a year since Intel released its Arc A-series graphics cards. When Intel made its announcement, there were to be five cards, the A770, A750, A580, A380, and A310. The 700-series and 300-series cards have been available either as add-in cards or included in OEM systems for a year or more, but the A580 has been notably absent. Until now.
The Arc A580 is about to go on sale, and the ever-vigilant @momomo_us (via Videocardz), spotted the ASRock Arc A580 Challenger. According to a listing at Austrian-based Geizhals, the card features 3,072 shader units, a 2,000MHz clock speed and 8GB of 16Gbps GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit bus. The picture of the card reveals twin 8-pin power connectors, meaning its power efficiency probably won't be all that good for a card in its class.
The inclusion of 3,072 shader cores (24 Xe-cores to use Intel's parlance) indicates the A580 uses the DG2-512 GPU—the same as the one found in the A750 and A770, albeit with a quarter of its shading units disabled. It's big GPU for an entry-level card, with a die area of 406mm². Though it does mean it will perform much closer to the A750 than it will the A380, which comes with only 8 Xe-cores giving it 1,024 shader units.
The Geizhals spec rundown shows the card will have a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 2.0, and it'll come with AV1 encode and decode support. ASRock's card looks to be quite chunky, coming with a twin-fan triple slot cooler.
Videocardz also spotted a Sparkle A580 Orc, which features a not-unattractive blue shroud. It has what looks to be a dual-slot cooler, and it's visibly more compact than the ASRock Challenger.
The success or failure of the A580 will come down to its price. Given the A750 has touched
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