NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +475%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

16

2560

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF110

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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