NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 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 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1733MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +102%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/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

GP106

GPU Name

GP104

GP106-400-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

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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