NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +580%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

68

1280

Shading Units

8704

80

TMUs

272

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

109.4 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

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

314 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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