NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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 3080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

212% significantly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

231 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

167 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

137% significantly higher Blender score

2352.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

235513 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

98709 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

92420 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

1703 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s

171% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

80 W

337% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

172% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

211% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

211% significantly better floating point performance

10.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

166% significantly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

166% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 3080 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.