NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2610MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +214%

40.09 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2596

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +272%

9659

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

282

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +232%

939

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

7680

112

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

240

28

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD104

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

12 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

285W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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