NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +140%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +109%

18851

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

28

8960

Shading Units

3584

280

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

48

280

Tensor Cores

112

70

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA104

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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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