AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1725MHz vs 1340MHz)

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

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +228%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

GeForce RTX 3070 +212%

13637

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce RTX 3070 +211%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce RTX 3070 +171%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce RTX 3070 +188%

144

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce RTX 3070 +200%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce RTX 3070 +161%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce RTX 3070 +141%

188

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 3070 +75%

105

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

5888

144

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-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

Board Design

185W

TDP

220W

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 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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