NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 1015.82 significantly less expensive

$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

19480 points

269% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

480 FPS

353 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

226 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

334 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

183 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6585 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

8733.11 points

276% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

241464 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

217807 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

2025 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2375 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

678.4 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

147% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

167% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

281% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

281% 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 September

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 4080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4080 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 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 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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