NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1282 MHz vs 1266-1340 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 18 April 2018
Boost clock speed	1282 MHz vs 1266-1340 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1120-1257 MHz vs 817 MHz
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1120-1257 MHz vs 817 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	13253
PassMark - G2D Mark	589
Geekbench - OpenCL	78982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	330.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3461.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	26.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	143.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	979.608
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1821

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA106	Ellesmere
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	18 April 2018
Place in performance rating	144	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1282 MHz	1266-1340 MHz
Core clock speed	817 MHz	1120-1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2304
Pixel fill rate	61.54 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	153.8 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)