NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1710MHz vs 1650MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

6528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (184W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +314%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +121%

17753

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

8024

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +163%

79

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +131%

139

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +98%

181

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

91

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +125%

61

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

27

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +111%

72

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

34

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +120%

106

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

48

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +137%

107

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

45

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +88%

162

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +62%

190

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

117

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +61%

92

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

57

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +63%

141

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080

172

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1%

174

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

34

8704

Shading Units

2176

272

TMUs

136

96

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

272

68

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

184W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU106

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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