GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1777MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+155%
12740
GeForce GTX 980
4981
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060
+100%
8747
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060
+99%
4097
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+144%
44
GeForce GTX 980
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+128%
80
GeForce GTX 980
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+87%
116
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
50
GeForce GTX 980
+20%
60
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+32%
82
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+33%
133
GeForce GTX 980
100
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GM204
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
