NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (11GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1582MHz)

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +12%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

352bit

Memory Bus

128bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

224

TMUs

112

88

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GA104

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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