NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs Intel Arc A580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Oct 2023
Generation
GeForce 30
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
3072
TMUs
112
192
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
112
384
RT Cores
28
24
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
3 MB
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
24.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
DG2-512
GPU Variant
GA104
ACM-G10
Architecture
Ampere
Generation 12.7
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
6 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
21.7 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
406 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
175W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
6.6