NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Dec 2021
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 20
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1470 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
10GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
320bit
192bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
68
34
Shading Units
8704
2176
TMUs
272
136
ROPs
96
48
Tensor Cores
272
272
RT Cores
68
34
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
5 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
79.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
224.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
14.36 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
7.181 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
224.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
TU106
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
TU106-300-KA-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
320W
184W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-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
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,662
8,024
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
3,697
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,572
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
91
Blender
—
1,893
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.