NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
8.873 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+43%
12.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1080
+2%
7565
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
7384
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1080
+1%
3446
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
3391
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
32
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+40%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
62
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+37%
85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
99
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+33%
132
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
52
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+1%
53
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
97
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+1%
98
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
128
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+9%
140
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
56
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+35%
76
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
74
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+10%
82
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
154
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
154
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
28
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)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
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
Board Design
180W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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 Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA106
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
12 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
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
