GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2505MHz vs 1777MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (170W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+282%
48740
GeForce RTX 3060
12740
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4080
+222%
28173
GeForce RTX 3060
8747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4080
+241%
14002
GeForce RTX 3060
4097
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4080
+232%
7254
GeForce RTX 3060
2181
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+200%
132
GeForce RTX 3060
44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+207%
246
GeForce RTX 3060
80
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+158%
300
GeForce RTX 3060
116
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+143%
73
GeForce RTX 3060
30
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+236%
121
GeForce RTX 3060
36
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+221%
180
GeForce RTX 3060
56
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+123%
123
GeForce RTX 3060
55
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+63%
165
GeForce RTX 3060
101
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+32%
188
GeForce RTX 3060
142
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+152%
126
GeForce RTX 3060
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+120%
181
GeForce RTX 3060
82
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+36%
182
GeForce RTX 3060
133
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+150%
135
GeForce RTX 3060
54
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+163%
108
GeForce RTX 3060
41
Horizon Forbidden West 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+188%
72
GeForce RTX 3060
25
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
28
9728
Shading Units
3584
304
TMUs
112
112
ROPs
48
304
Tensor Cores
112
76
RT Cores
28
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
170W
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 Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GA106
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-300-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
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
6.6
