AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1665MHz vs 1340MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +162%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4362

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +181%

12265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +194%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +157%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +176%

138

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +174%

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +142%

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +121%

173

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +70%

102

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

2304

Shading Units

4864

144

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

GA104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

392 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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