NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

76 %

49% significantly better overall score

51 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

170 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

123 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

106 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

60 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

123 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

86 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

79 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11562

32% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8714

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2460.13

0.61% slightly higher Blender score

2445.24

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

126130

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

99213

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

114956

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

96416

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93540

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

74845

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120409

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89470

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108150

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

84353

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

495.9 GB/s

37% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

170 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

75% significantly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

3584

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

112

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

20th of 549

41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019

January 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a slightly 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 RTX 2080 SUPER 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 RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.