Intel Arc A580 GPU Reportedly Appears in GFXBench Database

[T0@st]

The Intel Arc A580 GPU was revealed alongside its Alchemist siblings—A380 A750 and A770—last year, but remains the only one out of that lineup to not have reached the retail market. Things have been quiet on the Intel Arc 5-series "Advanced Gaming" front for a while now—TechPowerUp's GPU-Z utility was updated with support for the A580 last September, and an evaluation sample was benched in Ashes of the Singularity a month prior to that. A supposed sample Intel Arc A580 was recently tested via a Vulkan-based renderer in GFXBench 5.0, perhaps not the best platform to gauge PC performance on.

Has an owner of a rare curiosity unit chosen to bench the unreleased GPU, or is a manufacturer evaluating a sample with a very delayed product launch in mind? The test results are not all that impressive, with the A580 performing poorly compared to the range-topping Arc A770 (placed in Intel's "high performance gaming" tier), although it does much better than the A380 (not a big boast). The likely prototype nature of the evaluated card or immature state of drivers could be to blame for shortcomings in GFXBench 5.0.



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[AnotherReader]

The Aztec Ruins offscreen test is more encouraging at about 73% of the A770. I just wish they had tested something else; even 3DMark would be better.

 

[Cheeseball]

If ever they do release this out as a consumer product, they're gonna have a hard time pricing it as the A750 is already going for around $200 to $250 (currently $219.99 at US Best Buy).

 

[ZoneDymo]

This should not exist at the performance it will offer.

 

[kondamin]

Any news on the refresh Arc was supposed to be getting?

 

[Luke357]

I could see it for $150-180 but not much outside of that range as it would cannibalize sales of the a380 if it's $140 or below and wouldn't make sense if it's $190 because the A750 was $200 for a period and can be found for $220 right now.

 

[Daven]

Slowest GPU roll out evar!!!