Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2019 Jan 2021
Generation GeForce 20 Mobile GeForce 30
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 735 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 1095 MHz 1777 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 12GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 384.0GB/s 360.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 46 28
Shading Units 2944 3584
TMUs 184 112
ROPs 64 48
Tensor Cores 368 112
RT Cores 46 28
L1 Cache 64 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 4 MB 3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 70.08 GPixel/s 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 201.5 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 12.89 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 6.447 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 201.5 GFLOPS 199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name TU104 GA106
GPU Variant N18E-G3-A1 GA106-300-A1
Architecture Turing Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 12 nm 8 nm
Transistors 13.6 billion 12 billion
Die Size 545 mm² 276 mm²
Board Design
TDP 80W 170W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 7.5 8.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.6