NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1815MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +14%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8760

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +31%

11549

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

44

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +9%

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +13%

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +11%

129

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

30

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +43%

43

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

36

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +44%

52

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +28%

72

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

55

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +21%

67

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

101

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +18%

120

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

142

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +15%

164

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +64%

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +43%

118

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +35%

180

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

384

28

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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