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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1777MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +110%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM200

GA104

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

601 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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