NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1670MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +19%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

10.69 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1557 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

528.4GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

25

3584

Shading Units

3200

112

TMUs

200

48

ROPs

80

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

334.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

167.0 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.69 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

334.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP102

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

471 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

6.7

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