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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.

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Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecArc B580GeForce 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.

BenchmarkArc B580GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra 7,953 points
3DMark Port Royal 7,879 points5,072 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,949 points2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 3,084 points1,978 points
3DMark Time Spy 14,019 points8,754 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

All Arc B580 AI benchmarks →

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

All GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

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