NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +43%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

GeForce RTX 3060 +16%

8755

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

GeForce RTX 3060 +37%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

GeForce RTX 3060 +29%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

97

GeForce RTX 3060 +4%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +12%

56

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +15%

154

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

1320MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1875MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

3MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

12,000 million

314mm²

Die Size

276mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

170W

450W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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

6.6

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