AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1282MHz vs 1200MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 218.9GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +78%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

3840

144

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

60W

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA106

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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