NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2550MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +309%

52.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +215%

28371

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1438 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

736.3GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

80

SM Count

28

10240

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

112

ROPs

48

320

Tensor Cores

112

80

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

170W

700 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

AD103

GPU Name

GA104

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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