AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM AMD · 2016-06
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q NVIDIA · 2021-01
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Jan 2021
Generation
Polaris
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
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Shading Units
2304
3840
TMUs
144
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
120
RT Cores
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30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA106
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
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Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
12 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
60W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
CUDA
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8.6
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.