NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
603.4x more texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 180 Watt
175x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 20151
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 20151
Around 89% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7929 vs 4195
Around 89% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7929 vs 4195
Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 4646
Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 4646

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20611 vs 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20611 vs 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929 vs 4195
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929 vs 4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 4646
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 4646

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Around 79% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1771 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1771 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

20611

20151

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

20611

20151

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7929

4195

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7929

4195

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

4646

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8917

4646

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20611	20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20611	20151
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929	4195
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929	4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917	4646
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917	4646
Geekbench - OpenCL		55548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		819.934
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7209

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA106	GP104
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	117	254
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499.99
Price now		$439.99
Value for money (0-100)		43.70
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1425 MHz	1771 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2560
Pixel fill rate	68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s	283.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	7,200 million
CUDA cores		2560
Floating-point performance		9,068 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	10 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality