NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1468MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +31%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

30

2560

Shading Units

3840

160

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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