NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs Intel Arc A580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (2000MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +212%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

3072

72

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

DG2-512

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Pascal

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

6 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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