Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4060
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-3 nm)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+469 mm²)
  • + Energy efficiency (+2.1)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+1280)
B GeForce RTX 3080
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+488 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+192 bit)
  • + Transistors (M) (+9,400M)
  • + CUDA cores (+5632)
  • + TMUs (+176)
  • + ROPs (+48)
  • + RT cores (+44)
  • + Tensor cores (+176)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+14.66 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+46.10 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+228.90 GTexel/s)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+423)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+664)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+65360)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+45178)
  • + Normalized score (+6.9)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4060
 Component B
GeForce RTX 3080
Release year 2023 (+2) 2021
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz (+250 MHz) 1750 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 272 GB/s 760 GB/s (+488 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 320 bit (+192 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 115 W
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-3 nm) 8 nm
Transistors (M) 18,900M 28,300M (+9,400M)
Die size (mm²) 159 mm² (+469 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,072 8,704 (+5632)
TMUs 96 272 (+176)
ROPs 48 96 (+48)
RT cores 24 68 (+44)
Tensor cores 96 272 (+176)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 15.11 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS (+14.66 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 118.10 GPixel/s 164.20 GPixel/s (+46.10 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 236.20 GTexel/s 465.10 GTexel/s (+228.90 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 28.0 (+2.1) 26.0
PassMark (overall) 17,355 (+1280) 16,075
3DMark Time Spy 10,329 10,752 (+423)
3DMark Fire Strike 26,530 27,194 (+664)
Geekbench OpenCL 101,654 167,014 (+65360)
Geekbench Vulkan 99,998 145,176 (+45178)
Normalized score 75.9 82.8 (+6.9)

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 3080 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 73 FPS 59 FPS +23.7% (A)
ARC Raiders 92 FPS 89 FPS +3.4% (A)
Alan Wake 2 54 FPS 55 FPS 1.9% (B)
Alan Wake Remastered 145 FPS 95 FPS +52.6% (A)
Alone in the Dark 144 FPS 155 FPS 7.6% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 76 FPS 89 FPS 17.1% (B)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 111 FPS 72 FPS +54.2% (A)
Atlas Fallen 89 FPS 117 FPS 31.5% (B)
Atomic Heart 63 FPS 85 FPS 34.9% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 32 FPS 60 FPS 87.5% (B)
Back 4 Blood 198 FPS 235 FPS 18.7% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 69 FPS 90 FPS 30.4% (B)
Battlefield 2042 123 FPS 100 FPS +23% (A)
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 130 FPS ≈
Black Myth: Wukong 48 FPS 44 FPS +9.1% (A)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 95 FPS +12.6% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 80 FPS 74 FPS +8.1% (A)
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 97 FPS 97 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 70 FPS 106 FPS 51.4% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 81 FPS 94 FPS 16% (B)
Civilization 7 112 FPS 132 FPS 17.9% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 102 FPS 114 FPS 11.8% (B)
Control 89 FPS 82 FPS +8.5% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 195 FPS 212 FPS 8.7% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 157 FPS 169 FPS 7.6% (B)
Crysis Remastered 86 FPS 79 FPS +8.9% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 123 FPS 121 FPS +1.7% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 64 FPS 83 FPS 29.7% (B)
Days Gone 131 FPS 126 FPS +4% (A)
Dead Island 2 154 FPS 158 FPS 2.6% (B)
Dead Space Remake 54 FPS 73 FPS 35.2% (B)
Death Stranding 150 FPS 84 FPS +78.6% (A)
Diablo 4 180 FPS 181 FPS 0.6% (B)
Dirt 5 116 FPS 62 FPS +87.1% (A)
Dota 2 164 FPS 134 FPS +22.4% (A)
Dragon's Dogma 2 57 FPS 57 FPS ≈
Dying Light 2 52 FPS 87 FPS 67.3% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 143 FPS 149 FPS 4.2% (B)
EA Sports WRC 85 FPS 88 FPS 3.5% (B)
Elex 2 114 FPS 88 FPS +29.5% (A)
Enshrouded 53 FPS 55 FPS 3.8% (B)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 120 FPS ≈
F1 2021 208 FPS 156 FPS +33.3% (A)
F1 22 125 FPS 195 FPS 56% (B)
F1 23 144 FPS 184 FPS 27.8% (B)
F1 24 143 FPS 176 FPS 23.1% (B)
Far Cry 5 128 FPS 129 FPS 0.8% (B)
Far Cry 6 101 FPS 65 FPS +55.4% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 75 FPS 56 FPS +33.9% (A)
Final Fantasy XVI 54 FPS 61 FPS 13% (B)
Fortnite 180 FPS 160 FPS +12.5% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 160 FPS 194 FPS 21.3% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 238 FPS 152 FPS +56.6% (A)
GRID Legends 132 FPS 131 FPS +0.8% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 141 FPS 137 FPS +2.9% (A)
Gears Tactics 157 FPS 136 FPS +15.4% (A)
Ghost of Tsushima 66 FPS 71 FPS 7.6% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 69 FPS 149 FPS 115.9% (B)
God of War 52 FPS 91 FPS 75% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 85 FPS 95 FPS 11.8% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 135 FPS 124 FPS +8.9% (A)
Halo Infinite 124 FPS 101 FPS +22.8% (A)
Helldivers 2 85 FPS 86 FPS 1.2% (B)
High On Life 92 FPS 133 FPS 44.6% (B)
Hitman 3 173 FPS 131 FPS +32.1% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 71 FPS 77 FPS 8.5% (B)
Horizon Forbidden West 59 FPS 63 FPS 6.8% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 53 FPS 53 FPS ≈
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 57 FPS 69 FPS 21.1% (B)
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 77 FPS 75 FPS +2.7% (A)
Last Epoch 158 FPS 168 FPS 6.3% (B)
Lies of P 127 FPS 131 FPS 3.1% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 47 FPS 66 FPS 40.4% (B)
Metro Exodus 25 FPS 100 FPS 300% (B)
Need for Speed Unbound 75 FPS 100 FPS 33.3% (B)
Once Human 100 FPS 113 FPS 13% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 92 FPS 97 FPS 5.4% (B)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 340 FPS 307 FPS +10.7% (A)
Rainbow Six Extraction 141 FPS 218 FPS 54.6% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 59 FPS 82 FPS 39% (B)
Ready or Not 148 FPS 121 FPS +22.3% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 124 FPS 140 FPS 12.9% (B)
Returnal 63 FPS 88 FPS 39.7% (B)
Riders Republic 122 FPS 113 FPS +8% (A)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 38 FPS 36 FPS +5.6% (A)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 156 FPS 165 FPS 5.8% (B)
Skull & Bones 78 FPS 73 FPS +6.8% (A)
Sons of the Forest 60 FPS 77 FPS 28.3% (B)
Space Marine 2 68 FPS 78 FPS 14.7% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 73 FPS 104 FPS 42.5% (B)
Stalker 2 48 FPS 43 FPS +11.6% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 50 FPS 68 FPS 36% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 36 FPS 40 FPS 11.1% (B)
Starfield 47 FPS 52 FPS 10.6% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 78 FPS 87 FPS 11.5% (B)
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered 53 FPS 50 FPS +6% (A)
The Finals 156 FPS 152 FPS +2.6% (A)
The First Descendant 79 FPS 76 FPS +3.9% (A)
The Last of Us 55 FPS 76 FPS 38.2% (B)
The Quarry 73 FPS 97 FPS 32.9% (B)
The Witcher 3 191 FPS 191 FPS ≈
The Witcher 3 110 FPS 149 FPS 35.5% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 59 FPS 132 FPS 123.7% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 87 FPS 113 FPS 29.9% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 128 FPS 134 FPS 4.7% (B)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 68 FPS 76 FPS 11.8% (B)
Until Dawn 57 FPS 61 FPS 7% (B)
Valorant 240 FPS 220 FPS +9.1% (A)
Vampire Bloodhunt 201 FPS 238 FPS 18.4% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 61 FPS 66 FPS 8.2% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 117 FPS 112 FPS +4.5% (A)

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

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 wins 16 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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