NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 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 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

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

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (11GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +12%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

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

8GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

352bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

28

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

Board Design

195W

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP102

GA104

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

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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