AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 580G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1650MHz vs 1330MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (184W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +17%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2176

144

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

TU106

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

184W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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