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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Measured verdict

  • RTX 3060 is 10% faster at 1080p Medium (110.2 vs 121 FPS)
  • RTX 3060 is 9% faster at 1080p Ultra (66.4 vs 72.3 FPS)
  • RTX 3060 is 8% faster at 1440p Ultra (50.2 vs 54 FPS)

Tom's Hardware GPU hierarchy, 2022–24 suite, read 5 Oct 2026. Average FPS, the geometric mean of eight games — Borderlands 3, Far Cry 6, Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Red Dead Redemption 2, Total War: Warhammer 3, Watch Dogs Legion — on a Core i9-12900K.

Close on average: Tom's Hardware's 2022–24 suite has the RTX 3060 9% ahead at 1080p Ultra (72.3 vs 66.4 FPS) and 8% ahead at 1440p Ultra. A single game can swing the other way: GameGPU measured the 1080 Ti at 287 FPS to the 3060's 237 in Monster Hunter Rise at 1080p High. The 3060 has ray-tracing hardware and meets The Witcher 3 Remastered's minimum; the 1080 Ti has neither.

Support

ItemGTX 1080 TiRTX 3060
Driver supportGame Ready drivers ended in late 2025; security updates through October 2028 sourceIn July 2025 NVIDIA said the last Game Ready driver would come in October 2025; its 581.80 Game Ready driver (4 Nov 2025) still supported these cards, and the 590 drivers (591.44, 4 Dec 2025) dropped them.Current Game Ready drivers (617.42, 6 Oct 2026) source
Hardware ray tracingNo RT cores sourceYes (2nd-gen RT cores) source
DirectX 12 UltimateNo sourceYes source
DLSSNo sourceSuper Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction (no Frame Generation) source
FSRFSR 3 upscaling sourceFSR 3 upscaling and frame generation source
XeSSRuns; Intel recommends RTX 30 Series and newer sourceShader Model 6.4: GeForce GTX 10-series (Pascal) or newer, per Jon Peddie Research.Yes (Intel recommends RTX 30 Series and newer) source

Specs

ItemGTX 1080 TiRTX 3060
LaunchedMarch 2017 sourceFebruary 2021 source
Launch price$699 source$329 source
Memory11 GB GDDR5X source12 GB GDDR6 source
Memory bandwidth484 GB/s source360 GB/s source
Graphics card power250 W source170 W source

Game by game

A game we hold a benchmark table for is shown at that table’s settings. A card the table measured shows its measured number, the same on every page; a card it didn’t is fitted: placed between the measured cards either side of it in speed, so it is also the same on every page. The gap is shown only where both cards were measured.

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GameGTX 1080 TiRTX 3060
MONSTER HUNTER RISE measuredGTX 1080 Ti 21% faster287measured237measured
1080p · High (the game's highest preset), DX12benchmark source
Sniper Elite 5 measuredGTX 1080 Ti 22% faster79measured65measured
1080p · Ultra, DirectX 12benchmark source
Counter-Strike 2 partly measured~136fitted137.3measured
1080p · Sehr Hoch (Very High), 8x MSAAbenchmark source
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy partly measured95.8measured~97fitted
1080p · maximum detail, 4x MSAA, 16x AFbenchmark source
Fortnite partly measured~88fitted89measured
1080p, Epic quality, DX11, TAA, native resolutionbenchmark source
Cyberpunk 2077 partly measured~58fitted58.7measured
1080p · native (no upscaling), no ray tracingbenchmark source
Battlefield™ 6 partly measured~71fitted72measured
1080p · High preset, TAA nativebenchmark source
Call of Duty: Warzone partly measured~82fitted83measured
1080p · Ultra preset (Warzone 2.0, December 2022)benchmark source
Red Dead Redemption 2 partly measured84measured~84fitted
1080p · every option on High, DirectX 12benchmark source
ARC Raiders partly measured85measured~86fitted
1080p · High, nativebenchmark source
007 First Light partly measured36measured~37fitted
1080p · High, nativebenchmark source
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS partly measured~127fitted128.1measured
1080p · Ultra preset, DirectX 11 Enhancedbenchmark source
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered below minimumBelow minimum~44fitted
1440p · maximum details, HairWorks off, no ray tracing, Performance upscalingGeForce GTX 1080 Ti is below the publisher's minimum: driver support. CD PROJEKT RED chose the GTX 1660 as its minimum NVIDIA card because NVIDIA's Game Ready drivers for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta cards ended in late 2025, with security updates through October 2028.CD PROJEKT RED's minimum requirementsthe GPU maker's driver support notice
DOOM: The Dark Ages can't runCan't run~42fitted
1440p · Ultra Nightmare, DLSS Quality (XeSS Ultra Quality on Radeon and Arc)GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has no hardware ray-tracing units, and this game requires them.hardware ray tracing required
GAMERSPECS ESTIMATE

Fitted and modelled figures are estimates; frame generation is never counted. How is this calculated?

Sources

Each card on its own: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti · GeForce RTX 3060