NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1734MHz vs 1425MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +23%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

8.878 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +13%

8220

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

7257

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1556 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2560

120

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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