GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4080 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4080

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

AD103-300-A1

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

2505 MHz

Core clock speed

2205 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

320 Watt

Texture fill rate

153.8

761.5

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

22400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

716.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3