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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1777MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +155%
12.74 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
4.981 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Oct 2022
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz

Memory

8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104
GPU Name
GM204
GA104
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
398 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
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4

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