NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Dec 2021

Nov 2010

Generation

GeForce 20

GeForce 500

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

-

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

12GB

1536MB

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192bit

384bit

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

192.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

34

16

Shading Units

2176

512

TMUs

136

64

ROPs

48

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

3 MB

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

24.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

TU106

GF110

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

GF110-375-A1

Architecture

Turing

Fermi 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

12 nm

40 nm

Transistors

10.8 billion

3 billion

Die Size

445 mm²

520 mm²

Board Design

TDP

184W

244W

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

CUDA

7.5

2.0

Shader Model

6.6

5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

8,024

-

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

3,697

-

3DMark Speed Way

1,572

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

30

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

60

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

91

-

Blender

1,893

-