NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (11GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1665MHz vs 1582MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +42%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

9867

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +18%

11654

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

41

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +19%

49

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +25%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

109

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +18%

129

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

66

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +3%

68

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

115

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +6%

122

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

147

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +12%

166

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +24%

77

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

62

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +1%

100

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

99

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +4%

156

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

149

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4864

224

TMUs

152

88

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GA104

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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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