NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

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$ 1478.00

$ 599.99

$ 878.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

101 %

98% significantly better overall score

51 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

216 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

123 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

155 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

60 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

154 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

86 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

116 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14603

67% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8714

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3218.78

31% slightly higher Blender score

2445.24

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

176681

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

99213

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145322

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

96416

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

132328

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

74845

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145780

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89470

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

130006

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

84353

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

1777 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

12 GiB

9% slightly more memory

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

616 GB/s

71% significantly 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

136 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

420.2 Gigatexels/s

111% significantly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.45 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

12.74 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4352

21% slightly more shading units

3584

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

142% significantly more texture mapping units

112

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

16th of 549

41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2018

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 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has a slightly 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 11 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 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.