NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 4% (2610MHz vs 2520MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +72%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

4608

240

TMUs

144

80

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

144

60

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GB206

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

0 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

295 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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 16-pin

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

9.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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