NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +924%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA104

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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