NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +133%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

28

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Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

3584

272

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

112

68

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA104

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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

6.7

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