NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 244W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+924%
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 580
1.581 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Nov 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
16
4864
Shading Units
512
152
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
48
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
244W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GF110
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
3 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
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
