NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +43%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

GeForce GTX 1080 +1%

7536

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +40%

45

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +37%

85

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +33%

132

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1%

53

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1%

98

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +9%

140

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +35%

76

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +10%

82

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

20

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

180W

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

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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