NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 61% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 185 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines 3072 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 56% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 2255
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510 vs 2255

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
2255
3510
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 732
PassMark - G3D Mark 17566
Geekbench - OpenCL 89106
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2255 3510

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 4.0
Code name AD107 Polaris 20
Launch date 2023 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 123 363
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1890 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 11.61 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072 2304
Pixel fill rate 60.48 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 181.4 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 185 Watt
Compute units 36
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size large
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 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready