GeForce RTX 4060 vs 2080 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 3 years and 11 months older RTX 2080 SUPER that utilizes 48 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
41.6
(Average)
Value Index
73.3
(Good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2080 SUPER over RTX 4060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 35% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 11.2 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
  • Shows 9% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 75 vs 69 FPS
  • Features 288 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 82% higher memory bandwidth: 495.9 vs 272 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
128
78
66
47
134
85
72
51
The Witcher 3
143
117
82
44
148
123
90
50
Counter-Strike 2
208
157
111
58
223
169
122
64
Far Cry 6
105
98
76
45
115
103
82
47
Hogwarts Legacy
78
65
47
26
87
69
53
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
98
90
64
43
108
97
69
45
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
45
27
77
64
48
28
Cyberpunk 2077
82
75
43
22
89
82
49
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
128
119
85
46
140
130
94
48
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 125
1080p Ultra 96 102
1440p Ultra 69 75
4K Ultra 40 43
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
10683
11571
Time Spy 10615 11621
Solar Bay 49340 52087
Port Royal 6054 7001
Fire Strike 28540 28789
Wild Life Extreme 20610 23794
Night Raid 121368 108237
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
106633
122905
Background Blur 186.9 img/sec 197.1 img/sec
Face Detection 112.7 img/sec 110.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.92 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.16 Gpixels/sec 6.5 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.94 Gpixels/sec 7.05 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.34 Gpixels/sec 1.28 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 576.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14935.1 FPS 15732.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4060 +52%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
19485
G2D Mark 1036 917
DirectX 11 174 FPS 168 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 75 FPS
GPU Compute 9150 Ops/s 8159 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 28684 & 9968 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 +31%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2092 & 643 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4060 +11%
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 +12%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 +31%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 7696 6780
Image Segmentation (HP) 13706 15029
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23289 15410
Face Detection (HP) 31126 30849
Pose Estimation (Q) 78361 71857
Text Classification (SP) 3315 1983
Machine Translation (HP) 3491 3417
Object Detection (SP) 9386 8214
Depth Estimation (Q) 36778 26815
Style Transfer (SP) 148120 148497
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and 2080 SUPER

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 18, 2023 July 23, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $699
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 TU104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700 XT -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i9 9900K or above
Desktop GPU rating (54th and 48th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1830 MHz 1650 MHz
Boost Clock 2460 MHz 1815 MHz
Shading Units 3072 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 48
Tensor Cores 96 384
Ray-tracing Cores 24 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 24MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118 GPixel/s 116 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236 GTexel/s 348 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 +35%
15.1 TFLOPS
11.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 115 W 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 545 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 23.85 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock - 1937 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 15500 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s
495.9 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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