NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1815MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +154%

11.15 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +433%

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +167%

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +152%

129

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +139%

67

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +130%

120

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +118%

164

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-450-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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