RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs Radeon RX 580X

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking267not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.57no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 20GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23044096
Core clock speed1257 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHz1170 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate193.0149.8
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPS9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs144128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 70 Watt

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB has an age advantage of 3 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 164.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580X and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580X is a desktop card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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