NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, 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

6815 points
11108 points
62% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS
285 FPS
118 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS
140 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS
193 FPS
75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS
110 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points
5482.15 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points
159842 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points
145828 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz
9% slightly higher core clock speed
1290 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
Identical
1665 MHz

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
3% slightly higher memory bandwidth
432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W
110 W
81% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s
Identical
133.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s
386.3 Gigatexels/s
52% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS
24.72 TFLOPS
52% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864
7424
52% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152
232
52% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
Identical
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586
34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 4080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 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 RTX 4080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

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