GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1733MHz vs 1665MHz)
Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+82%
16200
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+61%
12223
GeForce GTX 1080
7565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+72%
5941
GeForce GTX 1080
3446
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+56%
50
GeForce GTX 1080
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+45%
90
GeForce GTX 1080
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+39%
138
GeForce GTX 1080
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+42%
74
GeForce GTX 1080
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+35%
131
GeForce GTX 1080
97
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+35%
173
GeForce GTX 1080
128
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+17%
66
GeForce GTX 1080
56
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+37%
102
GeForce GTX 1080
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
155
GeForce GTX 1080
154
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
20
4864
Shading Units
2560
152
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GP104
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
