NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (184W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1665MHz vs 1650MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +374%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

8024

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +146%

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +206%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +155%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

91

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +118%

199

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

27

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +144%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

34

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +126%

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

48

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +133%

112

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

45

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +153%

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +117%

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

117

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +70%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

57

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +75%

100

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +74%

150

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

174

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +6%

186

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

80

2176

Shading Units

10240

136

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

112

272

Tensor Cores

320

34

RT Cores

80

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA102

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

628 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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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