NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +600%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +348%

18851

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +877%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +371%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +303%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +268%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +167%

198

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

70

1280

Shading Units

8960

80

TMUs

280

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

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

478.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA102

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-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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