NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2019
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1095 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
384.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
46
Shading Units
3584
2944
TMUs
112
184
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
112
368
RT Cores
28
46
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
70.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
12.89 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
TU104
GPU Variant
GA104
N18E-G3-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
13.6 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
545 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
80W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
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
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.7
6.6