NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1710MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +155%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

46

1152

Shading Units

2944

72

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GP104

GPU Name

TU104

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

314 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

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