NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2550MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +267%

52.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1438 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

736.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

10240

Shading Units

3840

320

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

320

Tensor Cores

120

80

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

185W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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