NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Apr 2018
Generation
GeForce 30
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1340 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
2304
TMUs
112
144
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
—
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
193.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
6.175 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
6.175 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
385.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
GA104
Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 4.0
Foundry
Samsung
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
8 nm
14 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.7
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.