GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 580G

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated49
Place by popularitynot in top-10023
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data69.06
Power efficiencyno data18.21
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 20GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)1 December 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23044864
Core clock speed1257 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1330 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate191.5253.1
Floating-point processing power6.129 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs144152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2018 1 December 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 200 Watt

RX 580G has 8.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580G and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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