GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GA104

GP102

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1670 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

11,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

3200

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

334.0

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

15 GB/s

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

528.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

6.1

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3