Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2021 Sep 2020
Generation GeForce 30 GeForce 30
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1320 MHz 1440 MHz
Boost Clock 1777 MHz 1710 MHz
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 10GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Bus 192bit 320bit
Bandwidth 360.0GB/s 760.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 28 68
Shading Units 3584 8704
TMUs 112 272
ROPs 48 96
Tensor Cores 112 272
RT Cores 28 68
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 3 MB 5 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 85.30 GPixel/s 164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 199.0 GTexel/s 465.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 12.74 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 12.74 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 199.0 GFLOPS 465.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA106 GA102
GPU Variant GA106-300-A1 GA102-200-KD-A1
Architecture Ampere Ampere
Foundry Samsung Samsung
Process Size 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors 12 billion 28.3 billion
Die Size 276 mm² 628 mm²
Board Design
TDP 170W 320W
Suggested PSU 450 W 700 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 12-pin
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 8.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.6
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 8747 17662
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 4097 8879