NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +325%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

10752

112

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

128

112

Tensor Cores

336

28

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GB203

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB203

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

170W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

9.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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