NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 584.82 significantly less expensive
$ 868.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
14177 points
168% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
342 FPS
216 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
168 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
245 FPS
157 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
135 FPS
87 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
19628 points
123% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
5580.42 points
140% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
235513 points
137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
209081 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
131975 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
191836 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
173043 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1370 MHz
3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
6% slightly higher boost clock speed
1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
Identical
12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
384 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
153% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
105% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
186.5 Gigapixels/s
118% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
532.8 Gigatexels/s
167% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
34.1 TFLOPS
167% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
10240
185% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
320
185% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
112
133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

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 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 12 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 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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