News Intel Arc A580 Rides Again in Online Benchmarks

[Admin]

The 'missing' Intel Arc A580 has appeared again in online benchmark databases. This time it easily outclasses the RTX 3050 in Geekbench OpenCL tests.

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[-Fran-]

This seems to be awfully late to the party... So much so that is it even a relevant thing at this point?

The A750 seems to be, more or less, the same performance class, so it's like toss a coin between the two?

This puzzles me just as the 5600X3D did.

Regards.

 

[Eximo]

Stockpiles of crippled G10 dies. They can either be A730m or 580 for the most part. But if they are sub $200, why not?

 

[Elusive Ruse]

I don't mind more dilution of the GPU market, never hurts to have options as a consumer.

 

[InvalidError]

The A580 was supposed to be Intel's $220-ish model and that spot is already occupied by the A750. There isn't much room left to launch another lower-end, lower-price model that costs practically the same to make when Intel is likely barely breaking even on the A750.

Intel may not have many chips with more than one defective Xe core to brand down to the 500-tier either.

 

[Eximo]

Can't ignore the OEM market, that might be where all these will end up.

 

[NinjaChemist]

This seems to be awfully late to the party... So much so that is it even a relevant thing at this point?

The A750 seems to be, more or less, the same performance class, so it's like toss a coin between the two?

This puzzles me just as the 5600X3D did.

Regards.

AMD/Microcenter provided the rationale for the 5600X3D. These chips didn't meet 5800X3D specifications so they decided to create a new sku rather than trash them. Best Buy and Intel have done similar, although either not as newsworthy or purposely obfuscated. I was looking at an ASUS Dash F15 and wondering why it was so much cheaper at Best Buy than anywhere else, and after really digging into the specs the CPU SKU was specific (this is an anecdote, I didn't perform an exhaustive search) to this Best Buy model, and rated clock speeds were downrated 100-200 MHz across the board.

Regarding this A580, it may follow a similar path. Intel even said it was a cut down A750. It might be released in small batch to one OEM or SI. Although, I was thinking (hoping) they were testing to compare against their next-gen Battlemage. The A580 would be difficult to launch now since they've already heavily discounted the A770 and A750. They'd have to price it <$200 and it probably costs more to set up a small run of cards to slap the chips into. Might make sense as a mobile chip, though. A laptop that could outperform a desktop 3050 would be sweet.