NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +705%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

28

512

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

170W

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 Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA104

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

6.6

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