NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1582MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 11GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +12%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +12%

9870

GeForce RTX 3060

8755

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

41

GeForce RTX 3060 +7%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 3060 +8%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

109

GeForce RTX 3060 +6%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +20%

66

GeForce RTX 3060

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +13%

115

GeForce RTX 3060

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +3%

147

GeForce RTX 3060

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +54%

77

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +21%

100

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +17%

156

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481MHz

Base Clock

1320MHz

1582MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1376MHz

Memory Clock

1875MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

352bit

Memory Bus

192bit

484.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

224

TMUs

112

88

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

0MB

L2 Cache

3MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GA106

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

11,800 million

Transistors

12,000 million

471mm²

Die Size

276mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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