GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N18E-G3-A1 MAX-Q TU104

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2019

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1095-1230 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

735-990 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2944

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

80-90 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

201.5

199.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

384.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready