NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2022
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 40
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2205 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
2505 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1875 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
16GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
716.8GB/s
360.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
76
28
Shading Units
9728
3584
TMUs
304
112
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
304
112
RT Cores
76
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
64 MB
3 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
280.6 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
761.5 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
48.74 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.74 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
761.5 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
AD103
GA106
GPU Variant
AD103-300-A1
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
4 nm
8 nm
Transistors
45.9 billion
12 billion
Die Size
379 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
320W
170W
Suggested PSU
700 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

3DMark Time Spy
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8,747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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4,097
3DMark Speed Way
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2,181
Battlefield 5 1080p
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142
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
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44
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
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30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
80
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
-
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
116
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
55
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
-
56
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
101
GTA 5 2160p
-
50
GTA 5 1440p
-
82
GTA 5 1080p
-
133