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GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 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
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080 +1014%
48740
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4375
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4080 +570%
28173
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4080 +630%
14002
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
1917
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080 +1366%
132
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080 +623%
246
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
34
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080 +488%
300
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
51
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080 +339%
123
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
28
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080 +217%
165
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
52
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080 +150%
188
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
75

Graphics Card

Sep 2022
Release Date
Oct 2018
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s

Render Config

76
SM Count
10
9728
Shading Units
1280
304
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
304
Tensor Cores
-
76
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W
TDP
120W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103
GPU Name
GP104
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
379 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
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