NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +43%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7536

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +19%

9002

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 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

1320 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

170W

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 Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

392 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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