Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Intel Arc A580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 1 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 12 GB GA104 '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 12 GB GA104 +3%

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Sep 2021

Alchemist(Arc 5)

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

3072

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

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

113.7 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

1.536 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA104

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

6.7

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