NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

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

More VRAM (10GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +580%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

68

1280

Shading Units

8704

80

TMUs

272

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA102

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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