NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2572MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Lower TDP (180W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
23.7 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+29%
30.64 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
16065
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+16%
18647
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
7486
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+25%
9411
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
4152
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+22%
5089
Graphics Card
Apr 2025
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2407 MHz
Base Clock
1260 MHz
2572 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
70
4608
Shading Units
8960
144
TMUs
280
48
ROPs
96
144
Tensor Cores
280
36
RT Cores
70
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
123.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
23.70 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
350W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GA102
GB206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
