NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1815MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +14%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1650 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1815 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

495.9GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

28

3072

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

384

Tensor Cores

112

48

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

116.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

22.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

348.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA104

TU104-450-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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