Arc B580 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Arc B580 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. All released in 2024. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
Intel · Battlemage
12 GB VRAM190W TDP$249 MSRP2024
Full Arc B580 benchmarks →
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NVIDIA · Ampere
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Arc B580 | GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 12 | — |
| vram type | GDDR6 | — |
| tdp w | 190 | — |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Arc B580 | GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 21,653 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | 7,953 points | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 7,879 points | 5,072 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 2,949 points | 2,192 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 3,084 points | 1,978 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,019 points | 8,754 points |
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | — | 82,071 points |
| Geekbench 6 Vulkan | — | 91,383 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 701 pts | — |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 15,926 pts | — |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 260 rank | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
Arc B580
- qwen3:30b: 850.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 72.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 70.1 tok/s
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
- llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s
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