NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +328%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF110

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

244W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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