NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2016
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
28
Shading Units
2560
3584
TMUs
160
112
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA104
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
170W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,565
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
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Battlefield 5 1080p
128
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
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Battlefield 5 2160p
52
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Battlefield 5 1440p
97
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GTA 5 2160p
56
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GTA 5 1440p
74
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GTA 5 1080p
154
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