Intel has announced that Arc A580-based desktop graphics cards are now available worldwide from its ecosystem partners, including ASRock, GUNNIR, and Sparkle, from $179. This new series of Intel Arc A-Series graphics products, which complements Arc 7/Arc 3 and sits in the middle of the Arc graphics product stack, can deliver frame rates as high as 155 FPS in popular titles that include Diablo IV, according to benchmarks that Intel published on the official Arc 5 graphics site. Specifications of Intel Arc A580 graphics include 24 Xe-cores, a 1700 MHz graphics clock, and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.
The new product fills the middle of the Intel Arc discrete graphics product stack for gamers and creators, delivering advanced gaming performance at 1080p high settings on popular modern games, high frame rates on esports titles and a comprehensive set of media capabilities.
Intel Arc A580 graphics represents a compelling new offering in the segment delivering the modern features of the Arc GPU family to mainstream gamers and creators at a competitive price. Powerful gaming features such as Intel XeSS and ray tracing take the gaming experience further, enabling better performance at higher resolutions and hyper realistic visuals.
At 512 gigabytes per second, more than double the memory bandwidth of the closest competitors1, Intel Arc A580-based add-in cards are equipped to smoothly run modern games. They also have comprehensive media support including dual hardware-accelerated AV1 decode and encode engines, so creators can work with the codec of their choice.
Built-in Intel Xe Matrix Extensions (Intel XMX) AI engines not only drive Intel XeSS, an AI-based upscaling technology, but also provide great performance in other AI workloads, such as generative ones using models such as Stable Diffusion. Intel Arc A580 graphics represents a compelling new offering in the segment delivering the modern features of the Arc GPU family to mainstream gamers and creators at a competitive price. Powerful gaming features such as Intel XeSS and ray tracing take the gaming experience further, enabling better performance at higher resolutions and hyper realistic visuals.
