GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
+26%
12740
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
28
2944
Shading Units
3584
184
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
112
46
RT Cores
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
170W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GA104
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
392 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
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
