GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
October 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
-
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
608.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-