NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 339.79

$ 410.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

73% significantly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

663% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

3124.65 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

1925 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2075 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

150% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

163% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

200 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

381.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

24.44 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

47% significantly more shading units

5888

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

47% significantly more texture mapping units

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 May

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 vs GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce RTX 4060 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce RTX 4060.