NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +600%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

8960

80

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 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

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-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

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 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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