NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2505MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +242%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

9728

120

TMUs

304

48

ROPs

112

120

Tensor Cores

304

30

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD103

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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