NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +26%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +47%

10946

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +2%

46

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

85

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

127

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +3%

132

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +34%

39

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +34%

47

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +21%

67

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +18%

63

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +16%

114

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +12%

158

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

140

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +39%

106

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

76

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +31%

108

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +16%

180

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

28

2944

Shading Units

3584

184

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

368

Tensor Cores

112

46

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

170W

550 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

GA106

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

12 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

276 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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