NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Price

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$ 599.99

$ 416.50 significantly less expensive

$ 1016.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

109 %

113% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

123 FPS

266 FPS

143 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

137 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

191 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

107 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

49 FPS

81 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

37 FPS

84 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

65 FPS

106 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714

17552

101% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24

5024.69

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213

206390

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416

181771

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845

126138

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89470

179840

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84353

151693

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1440 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1710 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

20% slightly more memory

10 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

320 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

88% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

92% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

133% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

133% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

8704

142% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

272

142% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 549

13th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

September 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3080 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.