NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2000MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

12.74 TFLOPS

Arc A580

12.29 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8780

Arc A580 +23%

10875

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +62%

44

Arc A580

27

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +77%

80

Arc A580

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +65%

116

Arc A580

70

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

Arc A580

56

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

384

28

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

DG2-512

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

406 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

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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