GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 580 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Ellesmere

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

June 2016

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1266 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

1120 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,834 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

182.3

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2

1.2.131