NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +140%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8760

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +114%

18777

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

44

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +100%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +88%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +64%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

30

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +103%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

36

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +100%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +89%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

55

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +98%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

101

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +82%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

142

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +39%

198

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +88%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +73%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +29%

172

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

8960

112

TMUs

280

48

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

280

28

RT Cores

70

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA102

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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