NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1777MHz vs 1582MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 11GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +12%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1481 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

352bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

88

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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