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Intel Arc A580 Review ft. Sparkle Orc

Using the graphics card-only power draw figures presented earlier in the review, here we present performance per Watt on a per-game basis for all twelve games we tested at 1080p.

Per-Game Results at 1080p:

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12-Game Average at 1080p:

As it turns out, performance per Watt is simply awful for the Sparkle A580 Orc – there's no other way to put it. The power draw is just far too high for this level of performance, and it delivers lower efficiency than even the GTX 1060 6GB from 2016. I have to say I really don't know what Sparkle was thinking by increasing the power limit by this much – our testing shows it barely performs 2-4% better than when we tuned the GPU to 185W, resulting in pretty horrible efficiency levels.

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