NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Nov 2010
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 500
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
817 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
16
Shading Units
3840
512
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GF110
Architecture
Ampere
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12 billion
3 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
520 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GF110-375-A1
Board Design
TDP
60W
244W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.6
5.1