NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
795 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
58
28
Shading Units
7424
3584
TMUs
232
112
ROPs
80
64
Tensor Cores
232
112
RT Cores
58
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
48 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
313.2 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.04 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.04 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
313.2 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GA104
GPU Variant
GN21-X9
GA104
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
4 nm
8 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
295 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
60W
195W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
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
6.7
6.7