NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2505MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +200%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

4864

304

TMUs

152

112

ROPs

80

304

Tensor Cores

152

76

RT Cores

38

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA104

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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