NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 580G

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1725MHz vs 1330MHz)

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

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +231%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1330 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

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

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

42.56 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA104-300-A1

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

Board Design

220W

TDP

185W

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 8-pin

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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