NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 1 years late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +133%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

68

3584

Shading Units

8704

112

TMUs

272

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

272

28

RT Cores

68

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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