Intel ARC A580 8GB Graphics Card Review Featuring Sparkle Orc

Power & Temperatures

Now another area to look at is the overall performance of the card itself in terms of power, temperatures and noise because this can give an idea as to how a particular card is going to perform over a prolonged gaming session.

When looking at the cooling performance during an hour-long loop of F1 23, and we saw a pretty stable affair with only minor fluctuations throughout the test. The GPU Temperature quickly rose to 68 degrees upon starting our lap but simply stayed there through the entire test, staying perfectly comfortable at that relatively low level. Memory did sit a bit higher at around  76 degrees on average, but it did see occasional dips down to 74 degrees. With these temperatures being more than enough for the cooler to handle we saw the core clock of the GPU reach a boost of up to 2400MHz, with an average of around 2200MHz. During this loop the card’s fans rose to around 2200 RPM which sounds like a lot, but the tone of the fans meant that it was actually pretty quiet overall. In terms of power, the A580 was very low powered, sipping just 149 watts of power on average throughout the whole test.