NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2610MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +214%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

60

SM Count

28

7680

Shading Units

3584

240

TMUs

112

80

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

112

60

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA106

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

276 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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