NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1650MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (184W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +16%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2176

Shading Units

2304

136

TMUs

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

184W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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