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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Arc B580 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Arc B580. Release years: 2021, 2024. MSRP range: $329 · $249. 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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*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

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Arc B580
vram gb 1212
vram type GDDR6GDDR6
tdp w 170190
cuda cores 3584

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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Arc B580
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra 7,953 points
3DMark Port Royal 5,264 points7,879 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,159 points2,949 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,984 points3,084 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,747 points14,019 points
PassMark G2D Mark 984 pts701 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 16,969 pts15,926 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy 12 rank260 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

  • llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
  • llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s
  • llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AI benchmarks →

Arc B580

  • qwen3:30b: 850.0 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 72.0 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 70.1 tok/s

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