NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages
More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2572MHz vs 1710MHz)
Lower TDP (180W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080
+25%
29.77 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
23.7 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3080
+10%
17662
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
15926
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3080
+20%
8879
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
7342
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3080
+13%
4633
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
4084
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Apr 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
2407 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
10GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
320bit
Memory Bus
128bit
760.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
68
SM Count
36
8704
Shading Units
4608
272
TMUs
144
96
ROPs
48
272
Tensor Cores
144
68
RT Cores
36
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
5 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
465.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
29.77 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
465.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
180W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
GB206
GA102-200-KD-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
181 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
1.4
8.6
CUDA
12.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
