NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

7% slightly better overall score

4552 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

112 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

79 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2352.59 points

287% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

98709 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

92420 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

71210 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

84300 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

82804 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

336 GB/s

4% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

80 W

125% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3840

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 597

110th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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