NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1733MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+102%
8.873 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2018
Release Date
Apr 2017
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
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
20
1280
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
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 Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GP104
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
16 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
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
