NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Intel Arc B580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Intel Arc B580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 190W)

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2670MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc B580 +7%

13.67 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Arc B580

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2670 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2670 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

456.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

160

28

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB (per EU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

18 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

213.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

427.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.34 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.67 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.709 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

BMG-G21

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

SRPMF

Ampere

Architecture

Xe2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

19.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

272 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.4

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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