AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1852MHz vs 1340MHz)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +130%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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

1627 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

3840

144

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

185W

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

GA106-400-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

6.7

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