NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +133%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7406

GeForce RTX 3080 +139%

17724

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

GeForce RTX 3080 +75%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

GeForce RTX 3080 +63%

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

132

GeForce RTX 3080 +37%

181

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

GeForce RTX 3080 +110%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

GeForce RTX 3080 +105%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

GeForce RTX 3080 +92%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

GeForce RTX 3080 +101%

107

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

98

GeForce RTX 3080 +65%

162

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

140

GeForce RTX 3080 +35%

190

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GeForce RTX 3080 +13%

93

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GeForce RTX 3080 +71%

141

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce RTX 3080 +11%

172

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

8704

112

TMUs

272

48

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

272

28

RT Cores

68

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA102

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

170W

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 12-pin

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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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