NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +1184%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

512

184

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF110

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

244W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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