AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1852MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +170%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

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

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

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

6.7

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