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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 99% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Around 97% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Around 64% higher texture fill rate: 316.8 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	2023 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate	316.8 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 200 Watt
3.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 52% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 2302

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510 vs 2302

Compare benchmarks

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

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2302

3510

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	101650
PassMark - G2D Mark	1081
PassMark - G3D Mark	19722
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2302	3510
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	311.253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	33.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	169.697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1500.926
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	6622.553

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 4.0
Code name	AD106	Polaris 20
Launch date	2023	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	75	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	2640 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	2505 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	316.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.28 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	20.28 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2304
Pixel fill rate	126.7 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	316.8 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 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	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
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	288.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 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