Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2000MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A580 +24%

10889

GeForce RTX 3060

8767

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Arc A580

27

GeForce RTX 3060 +62%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Arc A580

45

GeForce RTX 3060 +77%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Arc A580

70

GeForce RTX 3060 +65%

116

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Arc A580

56

GeForce RTX 3060

56

Arc A580

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

48

384

Tensor Cores

112

24

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA106

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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