NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1777MHz vs 1665MHz)
Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
12.74 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+167%
34.1 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
7384
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+165%
19629
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
3391
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+195%
10032
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
1621
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+228%
5330
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
45
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+104%
92
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
85
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+80%
153
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
132
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+50%
199
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
29
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+127%
66
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
35
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+120%
77
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
55
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+103%
112
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
53
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+115%
114
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
98
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+90%
187
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
140
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+42%
199
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
76
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+31%
100
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
82
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+82%
150
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
154
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+20%
186
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 2021
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1365 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
28
SM Count
80
3584
Shading Units
10240
112
TMUs
320
48
ROPs
112
112
Tensor Cores
320
28
RT Cores
80
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
186.5 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
350W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GA102
GA106-302-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-225-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
12 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
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
8.6
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
