NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and AMD Radeon Pro 580X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1425 MHz vs 1200 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
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7929 vs 3360
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7929 vs 3360
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3643
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3643

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 18 March 2019
Boost clock speed	1425 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 3643

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 172.8 GTexel/s vs 171.0 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 900 MHz
Texture fill rate	172.8 GTexel/s vs 171.0 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro 580X

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7929

3360

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7929

3360

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

3643

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

3643

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	AMD Radeon Pro 580X
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917	3643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917	3643
Geekbench - OpenCL		35755
PassMark - G2D Mark		698
PassMark - G3D Mark		7540

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	AMD Radeon Pro 580X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA106	Polaris 20
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	18 March 2019
Place in performance rating	117	365
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1425 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)	345.6 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)	5.530 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS	5.530 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2304
Pixel fill rate	68.40 GPixel/s	38.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s	172.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	5700 million
Compute units		36
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	217.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)