Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2021 Oct 2022
Generation GeForce 30 Mobile GeForce 30
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 780 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 1245 MHz 1777 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 384.0GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 48 28
Shading Units 6144 3584
TMUs 192 112
ROPs 96 64
Tensor Cores 192 112
RT Cores 48 28
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 4 MB 3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 119.5 GPixel/s 113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 239.0 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 15.30 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 15.30 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 239.0 GFLOPS 199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA104 GA104
GPU Variant GA104-775-A1 GA104
Architecture Ampere Ampere
Foundry Samsung Samsung
Process Size 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors 17.4 billion 17.4 billion
Die Size 392 mm² 392 mm²
Board Design
TDP 80W 195W
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 8.6 8.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7