GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)
GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2505MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
8448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
4375
GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB
+1014%
48740
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
Sep 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
2205 MHz
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
2505 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
716.8GB/s
Render Config
10
SM Count
76
1280
Shading Units
9728
80
TMUs
304
48
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
304
-
RT Cores
76
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
280.6 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
761.5 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
48.74 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.74 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
761.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
320W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
AD103
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
AD103-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
4 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
379 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
