NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

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

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +308%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

16

1920

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

244W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GF110

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Turing

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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