NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.
Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark — G3D Mark, PassMark — G2D Mark, Geekbench — OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike — Graphics Score.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
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Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
- Around 17% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 3072
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
- Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 250 Watt
- Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
- Around 4% better performance in PassMark — G2D Mark: 973 vs 933
- 4349.5x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike — Graphics Score: 8699 vs 2
| Launch date | 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 July 2019 |
| Pipelines | 3584 vs 3072 |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm vs 12 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 170 Watt vs 250 Watt |
| Maximum memory size | 12 GB vs 8 GB |
| PassMark — G2D Mark | 973 vs 933 |
GFXBench 4. 0 — Manhattan (Frames) |
3717 vs 3716 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 vs 3355 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) | 3717 vs 3716 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 vs 3355 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike — Graphics Score | 8699 vs 2 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
- Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1320 MHz
- Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1815 MHz vs 1777 MHz
- 7.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
- Around 14% better performance in PassMark — G3D Mark: 19558 vs 17171
- Around 17% better performance in Geekbench — OpenCL: 113021 vs 96416
- Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.
5 Desktop — Face Detection (mPixels/s): 337.794 vs 306.744 - Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 4566.815 vs 4015.268
- Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — T-Rex (Frames/s): 31.631 vs 28.778
- Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Video Composition (Frames/s): 190.996 vs 188.944
- Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 1654.321 vs 1145.245
- Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 27179 vs 22495
- Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 27179 vs 22495
| Core clock speed | 1650 MHz vs 1320 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1815 MHz vs 1777 MHz |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) |
| PassMark — G3D Mark | 19558 vs 17171 |
| Geekbench — OpenCL | 113021 vs 96416 |
CompuBench 1. 5 Desktop — Face Detection (mPixels/s) |
337.794 vs 306.744 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 4566.815 vs 4015.268 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — T-Rex (Frames/s) | 31.631 vs 28.778 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Video Composition (Frames/s) | 190.996 vs 188.944 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 1654.321 vs 1145.245 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 27179 vs 22495 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 27179 vs 22495 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
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321| Name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super |
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| PassMark — G3D Mark | 17171 | 19558 |
| PassMark — G2D Mark | 973 | 933 |
| Geekbench — OpenCL | 96416 | 113021 |
CompuBench 1. 5 Desktop — Face Detection (mPixels/s) |
306.744 | 337.794 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 4015.268 | 4566.815 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — T-Rex (Frames/s) | 28.778 | 31.631 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Video Composition (Frames/s) | 188.944 | 190.996 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 1145.245 | 1654.321 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 22495 | 27179 |
GFXBench 4. 0 — Manhattan (Frames) |
3717 | 3716 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 | 3355 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 22495 | 27179 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) | 3717 | 3716 |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 | 3355 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike — Graphics Score | 8699 | 2 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super | |
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| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| Code name | GA106 | TU104 |
| Launch date | 12 Jan 2021 | 23 July 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | $699 |
| Place in performance rating | 76 | 67 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz | 1815 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 1320 MHz | 1650 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | 12 nm |
| Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance | 199. 0 GFLOPS (1:64) |
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| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1) | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 12.74 TFLOPS | |
| Pipelines | 3584 | 3072 |
| Pixel fill rate | 85.30 GPixel/s | |
| Texture fill rate | 199.0 GTexel/s | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 170 Watt | 250 Watt |
| Transistor count | 13250 million | |
| CUDA cores | 3072 | |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 89 C | |
| Render output units | 64 | |
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| Display Port | 1. 4 |
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| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 | |
| Form factor | Dual-slot | |
| Interface | PCIe 4. 0 x16 |
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| Length | 242 mm (9.5 inches) | 10.5” (266.74mm) |
| Recommended system power (PSU) | 450 Watt | 650 Watt |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin | 6 pin + 8 pin |
| Width | 112 mm (4.4 inches) | 2-Slot |
| Height | 4.556” (115.7mm) | |
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.1 |
| OpenCL | 2. 0 |
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| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.4 |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 360 GB/s | 496 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 192 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) | 14000 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
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How Much Better At Half The Price?
By
Alan Truly
Nvidia’s $399 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is not just cheaper than the $699 RTX 2080 Super, but also far more powerful. Here’s why.
Nvidia‘s newest GeForce RTX 30-Series graphics card, the RTX 3060 Ti, became available on December 2, 2020. This $399 graphics card is best pitted against the previous generation RTX 2080 Super, which is listed for $699 and was second only to the top-of the line RTX 2080 Ti for most of 2020.
Now that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is official, it is a good time to check specifications and benchmarks to find out by how much it surpasses the older GPUs.
Nvidia launched the GeForce GTX 2080 Super in July of 2019. This was a minor improvement over the RTX 2080, which was the top Nvidia GPU in 2018. Nvidia had a significant lead over AMD with its RTX real-time ray tracing and it was enough to make an incremental push in 2019. With the threat of Big Navi looming in 2020, Nvidia set a high standard again with the announcement of the RTX 30-Series, starting with the $499 RTX 3070, which outclassed the 2080 Ti. Two higher-level cards were announced at the same time, at $799 and $1499, but many were eager to learn more about the then-rumored 3060 Ti graphics card.
Related: RTX 3060 Ti Vs. RTX 3070: Best Affordable Nvidia Graphics Card?
Just as the RTX 3070 compared favorably to the more expensive 2080 Ti, the 3060 Ti bests the more expensive RTX 2080 Super graphics card in benchmarks that are already available from early reviewers.
Nvidia details the core components of the RTX 3060 Ti, with 4,864 CUDA cores, a 1.41 GHz clock speed (boost 1.67), 8-gigabytes of GDDR6 memory, and a bus width of 256-bit. It is made with an 8-nanometer manufacturing process so it automatically gets speed and efficiency benefits from a more tightly packed chip. In comparison, the RTX 2080 Super has 3,072 CUDA cores, a higher 1.65 GHz clock speed (with 1.82 boost), but the same amount/type of RAM and bus width. One significant difference is the older RTX 2080 Super was made with a 12-nanometer process, meaning spacing of components was 50-percent further, slowing performance and requiring more power to perform the same tasks. However, that not the only reason why the RTX 3060 Ti beats the far more expensive RTX 2080 Super.
Benchmarks of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 2080 Super were posted by TechSpot, showing an average frame rate of 114 frames per second (FPS) with 1440p resolution at high-quality settings, with a minimum of 92 FPS.
This places it almost exactly between the RTX 2080 Super (107/87 FPS) and the RTX 2080 Ti (125/101 FPS). There were no direct comparison benchmarks between these two cards, but Nvidia indicates the $399 RTX 3060 Ti matches or beats the RTX 2080 Super in ray tracing on Watch Dogs Legion, Control, Minecraft and Wolfenstein Youngblood.
With the launch of the Ampere architecture, Nvidia made huge gains over the previous generation Turing system. This is second-generation Nvidia ray tracing and often the biggest gains with new technology comes after the first has been thoroughly tested and new directions for improvement explored. Floating-point units were doubled and DLSS was greatly improved in the GeForce RTX 30-Series, with the result being the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 1440 resolution offers a nice improvement over the RTX 2080 Super, and at nearly half the price.
Next: RTX 3060 Ti: How Much Nvidia’s New Graphics Card Costs & Where To Buy
Source: Nvidia
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