{"id":1190684,"date":"2023-10-10T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190684"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:28:22","slug":"intels-180-arc-a580-aims-for-budget-gaming-builds-but-its-a-hard-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190684","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s $180 Arc A580 aims for budget gaming builds, but it\u2019s a hard sell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Intel’s Alchemist GPU silicon, the heart of the Arc A750, A770, and now, the A580. (credit: Intel)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Intel’s Arc GPUs aren’t bad for what they are, but a relatively late launch and driver problems meant that the company had to curtail its ambitions quite a bit. Early leaks and rumors that suggested a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3070 level of performance for the top-end Arc card never panned out, and the best Arc cards can usually only compete with $300-and-under midrange GPUs from AMD and Nvidia.<\/p>\n

Today Intel is quietly releasing another GPU into that same midrange milieu, the Arc A580<\/a>. Priced starting at $179, the card aims to compete with lower-end last-gen GPUs like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 or AMD Radeon RX 6600, cards currently available for around $200 that aim to provide a solid 1080p gaming experience (though sometimes with a setting or two turned down for newer and more demanding games).<\/p>\n

The A580 is based on the exact same Alchemist silicon as the Arc A750 and A770<\/a>, but with just 24 of the Xe graphics cores enabled, instead of 28 for the A750 and 32 for the A770. That does mean it has the exact same 256-bit memory bus as those higher-end cards, attached to a serviceable-for-the-price 8GB pool of GDDR6 RAM. Reviews from outlets like Tom’s Hardware<\/a> generally show the A580 beating the RTX 3050 and RX 6600 in most games, but falling a little short of the RTX 3060 and RX 7600<\/a> (to say nothing of the RTX 4060<\/a>, which beats the Arc A750 and A770 in most games).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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