Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Intel Arc A580 leads on 5 of 6 shared benchmarks (42% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 takes 1 (17% in PassMark G3D Mark).

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Intel Arc A580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Released 2023 (Intel Arc A580), 2019 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060). MSRP range: $179 · $349. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

Intel · Alchemist

Intel Arc A580

8 GB VRAM185W TDP$179 MSRP2023

Full Intel Arc A580 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Turing

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

6 GB VRAM160W TDP$349 MSRP2019

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Intel Arc A580	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
vram gb	8	6
vram type	GDDR6	GDDR6
tdp w	185	160
cuda cores	—	1920
process nm	—	12

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Comparigon, 3DMark, Notebookcheck, PCGamesN, HardwareCooking, TopCPU, UL Benchmarks, CpuTronic, PCBench, Phoronix / OpenBenchmarking.org and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Intel Arc A580	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: Comparigon, 3DMark, Notebookcheck	25,422 points	16,961 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: Comparigon, PCGamesN, 3DMark, HardwareCooking	5,632 points	4,034 points
3DMark Solar Bay (higher is better) Source: Comparigon	40,830 points	—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, 3DMark, TopCPU	2,103 points	1,423 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, UL Benchmarks, CpuTronic	2,231 points	1,766 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	9,171 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad Lite (higher is better) Source: Comparigon, 3DMark	9,233 points	—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: Comparigon, 3DMark, PCBench, Notebookcheck	10,823 points	7,596 points
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (higher is better) Source: Comparigon	21,117 points	—
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (Linux, 1080p) (higher is better) Source: Phoronix / OpenBenchmarking.org	284 FPS	—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	743 pts	—
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark, Comparigon	12,075 pts	14,076 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Intel Arc A580

Granite-3.0-3B-A800M-Instruct: 48.5 tok/s (OpenBenchmarking.org (Phoronix Test Suite))
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3: 25.1 tok/s (OpenBenchmarking.org (Phoronix Test Suite))
Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B: 24.0 tok/s (OpenBenchmarking.org (Phoronix Test Suite))

All Intel Arc A580 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

llama3.2:3b: 50.4 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
mistral:7b: 48.6 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
deepseek-r1:1.5b: 43.1 tok/s (DatabaseMart)

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Intel Arc A580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060?

The Intel Arc A580 leads on 5 of 6 shared benchmarks (42% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 takes 1 (17% in PassMark G3D Mark).

What did the Intel Arc A580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 cost at launch?

The Intel Arc A580 launched at a $179 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 at $349. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.