NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 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

Lower TDP (195W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2505MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +282%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

76

3584

Shading Units

9728

112

TMUs

304

64

ROPs

112

Tensor Cores

304

28

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD103

GA104

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

379 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

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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