Intel expands its GPU line with a new budget option, the Intel Arc A580.
For those who are not familiar with the Arc branding, the Intel Arc A580 is part of the Arc 5 series, which is better than the cheapest line — the Arc 3 — but an economical alternative to the Arc 7 series. It is geared toward high-settings 1080p gaming.
The Arc A580 has 24 Xe cores and ray tracing units, while the Arc 3 has 8 and the cheapest Arc 7 has 28. The GPU chips are clocked at 1700MHz and have 185W TBP.
It may be cheaper, but some of the A580’s features are the same as the A750 and A770. There’s the 8GB GDDR6 RAM and up to 512Gbps memory.
It has Intel’s Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) feature where you can get a 63% higher frame rate when enabled. The technology utilizes AI-powered image upscaling and reconstruction to make this possible.
Intel also highlights its dual encoding capabilities that the company claims make video export performance about 35% faster on Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and FFMPEG.
The Intel Arc A580 is being sold by ASRock, Sparkle, and Gunnir with their own casing and thermal systems. Price starts at USD179 (~Php10,100) and is now available in select markets.