Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3060
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+352 mm²)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+869)
B GeForce RTX 3080
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+400 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+128 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Transistors (M) (+16,300M)
  • + CUDA cores (+4864)
  • + TMUs (+152)
  • + ROPs (+48)
  • + RT cores (+38)
  • + Tensor cores (+152)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+18.83 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+78.90 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+266.10 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+7.5)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+2530)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+5505)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+78763)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+55258)
  • + Normalized score (+10.3)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3060
 Component B
GeForce RTX 3080
Release year 2021 2021
VRAM (GB) 12 GB (+4 GB) 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) — 1750 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 360 GB/s 760 GB/s (+400 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 320 bit (+128 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 80 W 115 W (+35 W)
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors (M) 12,000M 28,300M (+16,300M)
Die size (mm²) 276 mm² (+352 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,840 8,704 (+4864)
TMUs 120 272 (+152)
ROPs 48 96 (+48)
RT cores 30 68 (+38)
Tensor cores 120 272 (+152)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 10.94 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS (+18.83 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 85.30 GPixel/s 164.20 GPixel/s (+78.90 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 199.00 GTexel/s 465.10 GTexel/s (+266.10 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 18.5 26.0 (+7.5)
PassMark (overall) 16,944 (+869) 16,075
3DMark Time Spy 8,222 10,752 (+2530)
3DMark Fire Strike 21,689 27,194 (+5505)
Geekbench OpenCL 88,251 167,014 (+78763)
Geekbench Vulkan 89,918 145,176 (+55258)
Normalized score 72.5 82.8 (+10.3)

Only in component B

ray_tracing

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3080 Delta
007 First Light 45 FPS 53 FPS 17.8% (B)
A Plague Tale Requiem 44 FPS 59 FPS 34.1% (B)
ARC Raiders 70 FPS 89 FPS 27.1% (B)
Alan Wake Remastered 82 FPS 95 FPS 15.9% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 45 FPS 55 FPS 22.2% (B)
Anno 1800 80 FPS 78 FPS +2.6% (A)
Apex Legends 135 FPS 144 FPS 6.7% (B)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 37 FPS 33 FPS +12.1% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 57 FPS 72 FPS 26.3% (B)
Atomic Heart 75 FPS 85 FPS 13.3% (B)
Back 4 Blood 157 FPS 235 FPS 49.7% (B)
Battlefield 2042 74 FPS 100 FPS 35.1% (B)
Battlefield 5 110 FPS 130 FPS 18.2% (B)
Battlefield 6 68 FPS 78 FPS 14.7% (B)
Black Myth: Wukong 32 FPS 44 FPS 37.5% (B)
Borderlands 3 84 FPS 95 FPS 13.1% (B)
Borderlands 4 23 FPS 38 FPS 65.2% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 83 FPS 97 FPS 16.9% (B)
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War 60 FPS 89 FPS 48.3% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 77 FPS 106 FPS 37.7% (B)
Call of Duty Vanguard 99 FPS 125 FPS 26.3% (B)
Civilization 7 110 FPS 132 FPS 20% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 123 FPS 114 FPS +7.9% (A)
Control 78 FPS 82 FPS 5.1% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 170 FPS 212 FPS 24.7% (B)
Crimson Desert 49 FPS 56 FPS 14.3% (B)
Crysis Remastered 61 FPS 79 FPS 29.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 103 FPS 121 FPS 17.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 58 FPS 68 FPS 17.2% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 42 FPS 83 FPS 97.6% (B)
Days Gone 95 FPS 126 FPS 32.6% (B)
Dead Space Remake 59 FPS 73 FPS 23.7% (B)
Death Stranding 99 FPS 84 FPS +17.9% (A)
Death Stranding 2 52 FPS 58 FPS 11.5% (B)
Deathloop 72 FPS 113 FPS 56.9% (B)
Dirt 5 77 FPS 62 FPS +24.2% (A)
Doom Eternal 149 FPS 165 FPS 10.7% (B)
Doom: The Dark Ages 50 FPS 53 FPS 6% (B)
Dota 2 131 FPS 134 FPS 2.3% (B)
Dying Light 2 64 FPS 87 FPS 35.9% (B)
Elden Ring 59 FPS 59 FPS ≈
Elex 2 73 FPS 88 FPS 20.5% (B)
F1 2020 138 FPS 162 FPS 17.4% (B)
F1 2021 119 FPS 156 FPS 31.1% (B)
F1 22 113 FPS 195 FPS 72.6% (B)
F1 24 66 FPS 176 FPS 166.7% (B)
F1 25 127 FPS 150 FPS 18.1% (B)
FIFA 21 121 FPS 198 FPS 63.6% (B)
FIFA 22 161 FPS 273 FPS 69.6% (B)
FIFA 23 72 FPS 128 FPS 77.8% (B)
Far Cry 5 112 FPS 129 FPS 15.2% (B)
Far Cry 6 75 FPS 65 FPS +15.4% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 89 FPS 68 FPS +30.9% (A)
Farming Simulator 22 120 FPS 165 FPS 37.5% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 55 FPS 56 FPS 1.8% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 44 FPS 61 FPS 38.6% (B)
Fortnite 140 FPS 160 FPS 14.3% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 110 FPS 194 FPS 76.4% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 120 FPS 152 FPS 26.7% (B)
Forza Horizon 6 240 FPS 57 FPS +321.1% (A)
GRID 2019 95 FPS 113 FPS 18.9% (B)
GRID Legends 131 FPS 131 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 120 FPS 137 FPS 14.2% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 122 FPS 149 FPS 22.1% (B)
God of War 73 FPS 91 FPS 24.7% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 89 FPS 124 FPS 39.3% (B)
Halo Infinite 92 FPS 101 FPS 9.8% (B)
High On Life 99 FPS 133 FPS 34.3% (B)
Hitman 3 111 FPS 131 FPS 18% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 70 FPS 77 FPS 10% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 76 FPS 89 FPS 17.1% (B)
Hunt Showdown 93 FPS 110 FPS 18.3% (B)
Immortals Fenyx Rising 81 FPS 88 FPS 8.6% (B)
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 60 FPS 75 FPS 25% (B)
Mafia Definitive Edition 86 FPS 99 FPS 15.1% (B)
Metro Exodus 81 FPS 100 FPS 23.5% (B)
Monster Hunter Stories 2 143 FPS 144 FPS 0.7% (B)
Need for Speed Heat 102 FPS 94 FPS +8.5% (A)
Need for Speed Unbound 73 FPS 100 FPS 37% (B)
New World 66 FPS 75 FPS 13.6% (B)
Outriders 86 FPS 109 FPS 26.7% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Pragmata 58 FPS 67 FPS 15.5% (B)
Rage 2 116 FPS 116 FPS ≈
Rainbow Six Extraction 155 FPS 218 FPS 40.6% (B)
Red Dead Redemption 2 63 FPS 85 FPS 34.9% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 124 FPS 140 FPS 12.9% (B)
Resident Evil Requiem 57 FPS 79 FPS 38.6% (B)
Resident Evil Village 129 FPS 155 FPS 20.2% (B)
Returnal 85 FPS 88 FPS 3.5% (B)
Riders Republic 86 FPS 113 FPS 31.4% (B)
Rise of the Tomb Raider 133 FPS 157 FPS 18% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 18 FPS 36 FPS 100% (B)
Serious Sam 4 75 FPS 75 FPS ≈
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 116 FPS 165 FPS 42.2% (B)
Sons of the Forest 66 FPS 77 FPS 16.7% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 80 FPS 104 FPS 30% (B)
Stalker 2 16 FPS 43 FPS 168.8% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order 99 FPS 98 FPS +1% (A)
Star Wars Outlaws 24 FPS 40 FPS 66.7% (B)
Star Wars Squadrons 178 FPS 198 FPS 11.2% (B)
Starfield 40 FPS 52 FPS 30% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 56 FPS 87 FPS 55.4% (B)
The Division 2 115 FPS 105 FPS +9.5% (A)
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered 49 FPS 50 FPS 2% (B)
The Last of Us 55 FPS 76 FPS 38.2% (B)
The Outer Worlds 2 47 FPS 64 FPS 36.2% (B)
The Quarry 76 FPS 97 FPS 27.6% (B)
The Witcher 3 142 FPS 191 FPS 34.5% (B)
The Witcher 3 81 FPS 149 FPS 84% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 108 FPS 132 FPS 22.2% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 95 FPS 113 FPS 18.9% (B)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 65 FPS 76 FPS 16.9% (B)
Valorant 190 FPS 220 FPS 15.8% (B)
Vampire Bloodhunt 157 FPS 238 FPS 51.6% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 62 FPS 80 FPS 29% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 62 FPS 66 FPS 6.5% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 105 FPS 112 FPS 6.7% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 wins 18 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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