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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 3 years late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +26%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2944

112

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

368

28

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU104

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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