NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

56% significantly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

2352.59 points

0.48% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

98709 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

92420 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

68% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

0.41% 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

448 GB/s

33% slightly 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

83% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3840

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

53% significantly 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

67th of 586

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2021 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

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

The GeForce RTX 2080 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.