GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2460MHz vs 1733MHz)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 180W)
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4060
+70%
15110
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4060
+40%
10615
GeForce GTX 1080
7565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4060
+43%
4959
GeForce GTX 1080
3446
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+43%
46
GeForce GTX 1080
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+51%
94
GeForce GTX 1080
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+67%
166
GeForce GTX 1080
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+25%
65
GeForce GTX 1080
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+15%
112
GeForce GTX 1080
97
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+26%
162
GeForce GTX 1080
128
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+46%
82
GeForce GTX 1080
56
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+21%
90
GeForce GTX 1080
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+23%
190
GeForce GTX 1080
154
Graphics Card
May 2023
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1830 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
2460 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
2125 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
272.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
20
3072
Shading Units
2560
96
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
24 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
118.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
236.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
15.11 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
15.11 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
236.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
180W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
GP104
AD107-400-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
159 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
8.9
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
