GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1815MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+183%
11150
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3863
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+200%
11621
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
1771
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+203%
5382
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
15
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+220%
48
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
29
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+213%
91
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
44
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+193%
129
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
25
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+168%
67
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
46
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+160%
120
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
67
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
+144%
164
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jul 2019
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1650 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
1815 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
495.9GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
48
1152
Shading Units
3072
72
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
116.2 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
348.5 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
22.30 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.15 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
348.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
TU104
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU104-450-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
13.6 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
545 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
7.5
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
