GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1710MHz vs 1709MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+130%
10070
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
4375
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
10
2944
Shading Units
1280
184
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GP104
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Turing
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
16 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
