Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2021 | Apr 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 10 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1320 MHz | 1607 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1777 MHz | 1733 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1875 MHz | 1376 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 12GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 360.0GB/s | 352.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 28 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 112 | 160 |
| ROPs | 48 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | |
| RT Cores | 28 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 85.30 GPixel/s | 110.9 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 199.0 GTexel/s | 277.3 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 12.74 TFLOPS | 138.6 GFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 12.74 TFLOPS | 8.873 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 199.0 GFLOPS | 277.3 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA104 | GP104 |
| GPU Variant | GA104-150-A1 | GP104-410-A1 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Pascal |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 17.4 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 170W | 180W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 6.1 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.4 |