NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1852MHz vs 1733MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +60%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

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

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

6.7

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