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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP AMD Radeon RX 580G

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1852MHz vs 1330MHz)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +132%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1330 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

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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