NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2610MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +816%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

7680

80

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

AD104

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

285W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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