NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 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 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2505MHz vs 1650MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

7552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (184W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +578%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

2176

304

TMUs

136

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

272

76

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

TU106

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

12 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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