NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1852MHz vs 1815MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +27%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

48

3840

Shading Units

3072

120

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

384

30

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

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 USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

545 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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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