NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 40
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2310 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
2610 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
504.2GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
60
28
Shading Units
7680
3584
TMUs
240
112
ROPs
80
48
Tensor Cores
240
112
RT Cores
60
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
48 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
208.8 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
626.4 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
40.09 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.09 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
626.4 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GA106
GPU Variant
AD104-400-A1
GA106-302-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
4 nm
8 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
295 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
285W
170W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 16-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
8.9
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
📊 Benchmark
Blender
9,224
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