NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1710MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

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

7040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +374%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

8960

120

TMUs

280

48

ROPs

96

240

Tensor Cores

280

30

RT Cores

70

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA102

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

160W

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 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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