NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +26%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8755

GeForce RTX 2080 +25%

10966

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

44

GeForce RTX 2080 +4%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

GeForce RTX 2080 +6%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

GeForce RTX 2080 +9%

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

30

GeForce RTX 2080 +30%

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

36

GeForce RTX 2080 +30%

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

GeForce RTX 2080 +19%

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

55

GeForce RTX 2080 +14%

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

101

GeForce RTX 2080 +12%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

142

GeForce RTX 2080 +11%

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce RTX 2080 +112%

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GeForce RTX 2080 +31%

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 2080 +35%

180

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

1515MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

1710MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2944

112

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

368

28

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

4MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

13,600 million

276mm²

Die Size

545mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

215W

450W

Suggested PSU

550W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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