NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1184%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

46

512

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

220W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104-300-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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