AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1777MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +106%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

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

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/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

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

385.9 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

GA106-300-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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