GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 35)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 38)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 38.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 29571 75605
Night Raid 109862 199650
Port Royal 6971 23275
Solar Bay 54429 161489
Time Spy 11707 33000
Wild Life Extreme 24417 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 126 239
1080p Ultra 105 205
1440p Ultra 77 165
4K Ultra 43 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 107997247 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 22616912164 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 92814822 21319213861
Far Cry 6 1141038347 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 132887554 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 82694828 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 86735529 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1391329553 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1521289247 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 25946 69068
Face Detection (HP) 34615 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7384 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 19320 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16108 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4136 7905
Object Detection (SP) 8718 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 74811 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 153275 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2638 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 185.1 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.17 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 108.4 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.15 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.54 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.35 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15183 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 478 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6700 XT —
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12600Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released December 2, 2020 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1410 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1665 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 38 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 38 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 112
Shading Units 4864 10752
Tensor Cores 152 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 152 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 164 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 78 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 989 1397
GPU Compute 9865 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 392 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 200 W 360 W
Transistor Count 17 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 43.37 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 133 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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