NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1650MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +36%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +113%

8024

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +399%

1893

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

379

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

2048

136

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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