SPARKLE Arc A580 ORC OC
The SPARKLE Arc A580 ORC OC is SPARKLE’s version of the Intel Arc A580. At 225 mm it’s 45 mm shorter than the 270 mm reference design. Below you’ll find every current retailer price and the full spec sheet.
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Gaming performance
Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
Gaming scores are normalised performance indexes derived from Tom’s Hardware’s published GPU benchmarks. Performance per dollar and per watt are our own calculations on top of that data.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
4K Gaming
The Intel Arc A580 scores 26.2 at 1080p, 19.3 at 1440p, and 14.2 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.
Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
3D & gaming
Where to buy
Every in-stock retailer we track, cheapest first.
- AmazonCHEAPEST$388.77In stockUpdated 2026-10-12
| Retailer | Price | Availability | Updated | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmazonCHEAPEST | $388.77 | In Stock | 2026-10-12 | |
Specifications
GPU chip
- Chip
- Intel Arc A580
- Architecture
- Alchemist ACM-G10
- Process node
- TSMC N6
- Shader cores
- 3,072
- SM count
- 24
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 192
- Render outputs (ROPs)
- 96
- RT cores
- 24 · 1st gen
- Tensor / AI cores
- 384 · 1st gen
Memory
- VRAM
- 8GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 16 Gbps
- L2 cache
- 16 MB
GPU die
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Die size
- 406 mm²
- Transistors
- 21.7 billion
- Generation
- Arc A-series
Display & connectivity
- Max resolution
- 7680 × 4320
- Max displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.3
APIs & software
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12.2)
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Shader model
- 6.7
Platform features
- Upscaling
- XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
- Also runs
- FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation
- Resizable BAR
- Yes
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Supported | Supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Supported |
Encoder: Xe Media Engine · Decoder: Xe Media Engine
Board
- Base clock
- 1700 MHz
- TDP
- 175W
- Recommended PSU
- 600W
- Power connectors
- 2 8-pin
Physical
- Cooling
- Air
- Length
- Reference design:
270 mmThis card: 225 mm - Slot width
- 2 slots
- Outputs
- 1 HDMI 2.1, 3 Displayport 2.0
Identifiers
- MPN
- SA580C-8GOC
- ASIN
- B0CHN5KQS8
- EAN
- 4711342290221
Chip-level specs — cores, memory, die, APIs, media engine and platform features — are shared by every version of the Intel Arc A580. The Board, Physical and Identifier boxes are specific to this SPARKLE variant; a struck-through value shows where it differs from the reference design.
Local AI performance
What the SPARKLE Arc A580 ORC OC can run on your own machine, and how fast. Capacity and speed come from the Intel Arc A580 chip, so they are the same on every board version; price per GB is this board’s own.
Largest model it can run (8K context)
- Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
- ~9.3B
- Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
- ~5.3B
- FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
- ~2.8B
Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.
Speed & value
- Speed, 8B model at Q4
- 78-90 tok/s
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- Price per GB of VRAM
- $48.60
Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.
Models that fit, at Q4
| Model | Size | Memory needed | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glm4 9B | 9.4B | 5.8GB | 69-81 tok/s |
| Yi 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 75-87 tok/s |
| Yi Coder 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 75-87 tok/s |
Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.
Across generations
Where the Intel Arc A580 sits in SPARKLE’s lineup — the generation before and after.
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