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