GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs Arc B580 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs Arc B580. 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.

NVIDIA · Ampere

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →

Intel · Battlemage

Arc B580

12 GB VRAM190W TDP$249 MSRP2024

Full Arc B580 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

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Specs side-by-side

Spec	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	Arc B580
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	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	Arc B580
3DMark Fire Strike	21,653 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra	—	7,953 points
3DMark Port Royal	5,072 points	7,879 points
3DMark Speed Way	2,192 points	2,949 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	1,978 points	3,084 points
3DMark Time Spy	8,754 points	14,019 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.