GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
The GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB is Nvidia’s 8GB graphics card with a 170W board power rating, built on the Ampere GA106 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks. No board versions are in stock right now, but the specs and benchmarks below still apply whenever it returns to retailers.
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Gaming performance
Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
4K Gaming
The GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB scores 34.5 at 1080p, 17.6 at 1440p, and 0.0 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.
Performance-per-dollar rank among all GPUs with live pricing
Value at 1080p
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Value at 1440p
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Value at 4K
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Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
3D & gaming
Render
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB availability
Live retailer stock for this model.
Currently out of stock
None of the board versions of the GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB are in stock at the retailers we track right now. Prices refresh daily, so check back — or compare in-stock alternatives below.
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The reference GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB measures 242 mm long.
Performance
- Boost clock
- 1777 MHz
- Base clock
- 1320 MHz
- Shader cores
- 3,584
- SM count
- 28
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 112
- Render outputs (ROPs)
- 48
- RT cores
- 28 · 2nd gen
- Tensor / AI cores
- 112 · 3rd gen
Memory
- VRAM
- 8GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 240 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 15 Gbps
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
GPU die
- Architecture
- Ampere GA106
- Process node
- Samsung 8N
- Foundry
- Samsung
- Die size
- 276 mm²
- Transistors
- 12 billion
- Generation
- GeForce RTX 30
Power
- TDP
- 170W
- Recommended PSU
- 550W
- Power connectors
- 1 12-pin
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680 × 4320
- Max displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.3
- Outputs
- 1 HDMI 2.1, 3 Displayport 1.4a
- PCIe interface
- PCIe 4.0 ×16
APIs & software
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12.2)
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- CUDA
- Compute 8.6
- Shader model
- 6.8
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Supported | Supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Supported |
Encoder: NVENC 7th gen · Decoder: NVDEC 5th gen
Features
- Upscaling
- DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction
- Also runs
- FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation, XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
- Resizable BAR
- Yes
Physical
- Reference length
- 242 mm
- Slot width
- 2 slots
- Released
- 2022-10-01
- MSRP
- $329.00
3,584 shader cores feed a 128-bit memory interface delivering 240 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 28 RT cores handle real-time ray tracing; 112 tensor cores accelerate AI workloads and DLSS Super Resolution. Compare the GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB against the full GPU lineup on the GPU comparison table.
Across generations
Where the GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB sits in Nvidia’s lineup — the generation before and after.
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