Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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Intel Arc B580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc B580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2670MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (190W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc B580 +7%

13.67 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc B580

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2024

Release Date

Oct 2022

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2670 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2670 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

456.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

64

160

Tensor Cores

112

20

RT Cores

28

256 KB (per EU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

18 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

213.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

427.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

27.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

13.67 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.709 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

BMG-G21

GPU Name

GA104

SRPMF

GPU Variant

GA104

Xe2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

19.6 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

272 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

1.4

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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