NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1710MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

7040 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +374%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

1920

280

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

48

280

Tensor Cores

240

70

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU104

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

160W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

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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