NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 XTR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 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
1641.5x more texture fill rate: 316.8 GTexel/s vs 193.0 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 193.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR

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

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR
Geekbench - OpenCL	101650
PassMark - G2D Mark	1081
PassMark - G3D Mark	19722
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2302
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 XTR
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 4.0
Code name	AD106	Polaris 20
Launch date	2023	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	75	not rated
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Type		Desktop
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
Texture fill rate	316.8 GTexel/s	193.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	185 Watt
Floating-point performance		6,175 gflops
Transistor count		5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 8-pin
Length		241 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	256.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5