The RTX 3090 might be the extreme flagship of the latest Ampere set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most high-end PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 3080 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 699. The good news is, with the release of the RTX 3080 Ti, the RTX 3080 's price is getting more discount.
Spec for spec, this RTX 3080 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RTX 2080, by boasting 69.4 % more fps. The RTX 3080 has 10 GB RAM compared to the RTX 2080 's 8 GB video memory.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 3080 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RTX 2080, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. Compared to its AMD 's closest rival, RX 6800 XT, the RTX 3080 was -1.6 % slower.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, Immortals of Aveum, The Callisto Protocol, Remnant II, The Last of Us Part I at 67 fps to 85 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 75 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play The Last of Us Part I, Forspoken, Atomic Heart, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy at 65 fps to 85 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 73 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, GreedFall, Cyberpunk 2077, Godfall at 61 fps to 64 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 62 fps.
The RTX 3070 might be the mid-range flagship of the latest Ampere set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most entry-level PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 3060 Ti is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 399. NVIDIA ’s xx60 cards have always been defined by entry-level prices with performance that knocks on the door of mid-range graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the Ampere graphics card inside the RTX 3060 Ti, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend.
Spec for spec, this RTX 3060 Ti leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RTX 2060 SUPER, by boasting 30.8 % more fps. In our synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 3060 Ti blows past the RTX 2060 SUPER and, amazingly, even the RTX 2070 as well.
Compared to its AMD 's closest rival, RX 5700 XT, the RTX 3060 Ti was 22.1 % faster. Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 3060 Ti consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RTX 2060 SUPER and it really justifies an upgrade.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Forspoken, Halo Infinite, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Atomic Heart, Cyberpunk 2077 at 64 fps to 70 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 67 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Red Dead Redemption 2, A Plague Tale: Requiem, F1 22, Dying Light 2, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart at 60 fps to 61 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 61 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Resident Evil 2, Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 at 63 fps to 67 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 285 mm 11.2 inches | 242 mm 9.5 inches |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort 1x USB Type-C | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 12-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 320 W | 200 W |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1440 MHz | 1410 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 2375 MHz 19000 MHz effective | 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 30 |
| Launch Price | 699 USD | 449 USD |
| Production | Active | Active |
| Release Date | Sep 17th, 2020 | Dec 2nd, 2020 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.140 | 1.2.140 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| Die Size | 627 mm² | 392 mm² |
| GPU Name | GA102 | GA104 |
| GPU Variant | GA102-200-K1-A1 | GA104-200-A1 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 28,000 million | 17,400 million |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 760.0 GB/s | 448.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 320 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Size | 10240 MB | 8192 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 88 | 80 |
| RT Cores | 68 | 38 |
| SM Count | 68 | 38 |
| Shading Units | 8704 | 4864 |
| TMUs | 272 | 152 |
| Tensor Cores | TBD | 152 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 59.54 TFLOPS (2:1) | 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 29.77 TFLOPS | 16.20 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 930.2 GFLOPS (1:32) | 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64) |
| Pixel Rate | 150.5 GPixel/s | 133.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 465.1 GTexel/s | 253.1 GTexel/s |
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