NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1710MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +130%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2944

80

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU104

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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