NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +799%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA106

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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