NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1777MHz vs 1340MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +106%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA104

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

392 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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