NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1425MHz vs 1077MHz)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +120%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 Mobile

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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Radeon RX 580 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3840

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

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GPU Variant

Polaris 20M XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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