AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580G

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1777MHz vs 1330MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +107%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1320 MHz

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GA106

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-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

6.6

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