NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

36% slightly better overall score

4562 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

79 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

2352.59 points

173% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

98709 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

92420 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

84300 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1703 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

84% significantly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

83% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

44% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

103% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

10.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

3840

7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

86% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 597

110th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.