Gaming & Creating Performance with an Intel® Arc™ A580 GPU

Gamers and content creators alike can benefit from the supercharged performance provided by Intel® Arc™ A580 GPUs.

Advanced AI capabilities, ray tracing technology, and more establish Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics as a high-performing GPU.

Within this training, we’ll consider the industry-leading technology built into Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics and how this technology produces a powerful performance.

Later, we’ll compare the gaming and content creation performance of Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics against NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics to see which delivers users more FPS , quicker video upscaling, and more.

Intel® Arc™ A580 Features

Geared towards advanced gamers and aspiring content creators, Intel® Arc™ A580 GPUs feature:

24 Xe-cores (foundational compute building blocks of Intel® Arc™ GPUs )

24 Ray Tracing units (renders images to create photorealistic graphics with shadow formations and realistic lighting for a more immersive visual experience)

8GB GDDR6 memory (GPU RAM that specializes in image rendering and data transfers)

Advanced 3D acceleration hardware

384 Intel® Xe Matrix Extensions (Intel® XMX Engines) dedicated for AI-accelerated performance including AI-enhanced upscaling with Intel® XeSS

Intel® Xe Super Sampling Technology (XeSS)

Intel® XeSS elevates a user's gaming experience with AI-enhanced upscaling, which improves the resolution of low-quality images. Older games often feature lower-resolution images, so this technology utilizes deep learning algorithms to deliver a gaming experience with ultra-high-definition visuals and a boost in performance.

Intel® Deep Link Technology

Intel® products are designed to work in conjunction with one another, so pairing an Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Arc™ graphics card allows device power and performance to reach new levels. Intel® Deep Link technology builds on the partnership between Intel® CPUs and GPUs to facilitate more immersive gaming, advanced content creation capabilities, and more.

Intel® Deep Link technologies include Hyper Computer, Hyper Encode, and Stream Assist!

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Gaming Performance

Within this section, we’ll consider how Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics compare against NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics in different games.

Not only are Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics typically less expensive than NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics, but they also provide higher frames per second (FPS) within most games.

To create a neutral testing environment, both the Intel® and NVIDIA GPUs performance were measured at 1080p max on an Intel® Core™ i9-13900K processor.

During gameplay, the Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics outperformed the competition, delivering equal or higher frame rates in every game.

Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics delivered:

Rachet and Clank: Rift Apart: 16 FPS higher gameplay

Dying Light 2: 12 FPS higher gameplay

Guardians of the Galaxy: on par FPS gameplay

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered: 15 FPS higher gameplay

Resident Evil Village: 18 FPS higher gameplay

In a variety of games, Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics delivered over 20 FPS more than the NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics, with increased frame rates of:

Total War Warhammer 3: 21 FPS higher gameplay

Baldur’s Gate 3: 21 FPS higher gameplay

Diablo IV: 27 FPS higher gameplay

Control: 27 FPS higher gameplay

Metro Exodus: 25 FPS higher gameplay

XeSS Super Sampling Gaming Performance

Intel® XeSS upscales images within gameplay to provide higher-resolution on-screen graphics. DLSS 2.0 is a similar technology utilized by NVIDIA, which creates high-quality in-game images.

Let’s consider gaming performance when Intel® XeSS is utilized on Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics and DLSS 2.0 is being used on NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics.

With both technologies enabled, Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics still outperformed NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics, having delivered:

Chorus: on par FPS gameplay

Ghostwire: Tokyo: on par FPS gameplay

Dying Light 2: 14 FPS higher gameplay

F1 23: 19 FPS higher gameplay

Hitman 3: 12 FPS higher gameplay

AI Accelerated Content Creation

While gamers can certainly reap the benefits of Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics, content creators can also thrive thanks to this GPU.

In this section, we’ll consider how the same Intel® Core™ i9-13900K processor performed content creation workloads while paired with either Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics or NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics.

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image content creation feature that flourishes with Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics. Customers can now create photo-realistic images based on their text input and enjoy the art that’s produced within seconds.

When the AI image generator was tested on both GPUs, Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics performed 1.8x faster.

Video Encoding

Common content creator tasks, such as video upscaling, exporting, and encoding, are made possible by Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics. XE media engines enable accelerated AV1 encoding (which efficiently produces high-quality videos) so that creators can experience an expedited encoding process.

Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics outperformed NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics in these encoding workloads, as the Intel® GPU performed:

Video Upscaling using Topaz Labs Video AI: 42% faster

Video Exporting using FFMPEG 12.2.0:37% faster with dual encoding enabled

Summary

Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics elevate gameplay with technologies like Intel® XeSS, which uses automatic image upscaling to improve low-quality images, as well as ray tracing technology, which simulates realistic light and shadows within games.

When compared to NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics, Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics performed on par or significantly better than the competition in gameplay frame rates. Content creators can enjoy expedited encoding and quick AI image generation with Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics.

Built for gamers and content creators alike, Intel® Arc™ A580 graphics are a great recommendation for customers seeking high performance throughout their graphics-intensive workloads.

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