NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2011

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

-

Compute Units

-

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

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF110

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-380-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

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 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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