Intel Arc A580 Review ft. Sparkle Orc

Driver Notes

• AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 23.9.3 driver.
• All Nvidia GPUs were benchmarked with the 537.42 driver.
• Intel Arc A750 was benchmarked with the 31.0.101.4885 driver.
• Intel Arc A580 was benchmarked with the 31.0.101.4830 driver supplied to press.

Results are only directly comparable where this exact configuration has been used.

Test System:

We test using a custom built system from PCSpecialist, based on Intel’s Rocket Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and configure your own PCSpecialist system HERE.

Comparison Graphics Cards List

• MSI Ventus RTX 4060 8GB
• Palit RTX 3060 StormX 12GB
• Palit RTX 3050 StormX 8GB
• Nvidia RTX 2060 FE 6GB
• Nvidia GTX 1060 FE 6GB
• Sapphire RX 7600 Pulse 8GB
• Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle 8GB
• Gigabyte RX 6500 XT Eagle 4GB
• Intel Arc A750 LE 8GB
• Sparkle Arc A580 Orc 8GB

All cards, except the Sparkle Arc A580 Orc that is the subject of this review, were tested at reference specifications.

Software and Games List

• 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
• 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
• 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test (DXR Synthetic)
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
• Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
• God of War (DX11)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
• The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12)
• Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (DX12)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
• Resident Evil 4 (DX12)
• Returnal (DX12)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
• Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.

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