NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +234%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

38

10752

Shading Units

4864

336

TMUs

152

128

ROPs

80

336

Tensor Cores

152

84

RT Cores

38

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

225W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GA104

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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