NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2460MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +102%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

24

8960

Shading Units

3072

280

TMUs

96

ROPs

48

280

Tensor Cores

96

70

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

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Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

115W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

AD106

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

AD106-155-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

188 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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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