NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1480MHz vs 1245MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +303%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA104

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 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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