NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Jun 2011
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
16
Shading Units
3584
512
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
112
—
RT Cores
28
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GF110
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
GF110-380-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
3 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
244W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.