NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +1138%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

10752

80

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GB203

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GB203

Pascal

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

0 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

314 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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