NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 6144 vs 3840), a higher boost clock (1710 MHz vs 1703 MHz), more VRAM (16 GB vs 6 GB), a wider memory bus (256 bit vs 192 bit), and higher memory bandwidth (448 GB/s vs 336 GB/s).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores3840
CUDA cores6144
Boost1703 MHz
Boost1710 MHz
VRAM6 GB
VRAM16 GB
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus256 bit
TGP60–130 W
TGP80–175 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU chipGA106
GPU chipGA104
Chip variantGN20-E3
Chip variantGN20-E7
FoundrySamsung
FoundrySamsung
Process node8 nm
Process node8 nm
Die size276 mm²
Die size392 mm²
Transistors12 billion
Transistors17.4 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateJanuary 12, 2021
Release dateJanuary 12, 2021
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores3840
CUDA cores6144
30× SM
48× SM
Boost clock (max)1703 MHz
Boost clock (max)1710 MHz
Boost clock (min)1283 MHz
Boost clock (min)1245 MHz
Memory
VRAM6 GB
VRAM16 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus256 bit
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Bandwidth336 GB/s
Bandwidth448 GB/s
TGP
TGP range60 - 115 W
TGP range80 - 150 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost25 W
Cache
L2 cache3 MB
L2 cache4 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs120
TMUs192
ROPs48
ROPs96
RT cores30
RT cores48
Tensor cores120
Tensor cores192
SM blocks30
SM blocks48
AI
AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A