NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1733MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +125%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3847

GeForce GTX 1080 +95%

7534

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

GeForce GTX 1080 +113%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

GeForce GTX 1080 +113%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

GeForce GTX 1080 +125%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

GeForce GTX 1080 +108%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

GeForce GTX 1080 +110%

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

GeForce GTX 1080 +91%

128

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

2560

72

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP104

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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