NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +924%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF110

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-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

Board Design

170W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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