NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
912.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
70
Shading Units
3584
8960
TMUs
112
280
ROPs
48
96
Tensor Cores
112
280
RT Cores
28
70
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GA102
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
GA102-220-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
350W
Suggested PSU
450 W
750 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
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,935
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,231
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.