NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1725MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +248%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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