NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 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 355.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +31%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

36

8960

Shading Units

4608

280

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

48

280

Tensor Cores

144

70

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GB206

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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