NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1733MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +102%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP106

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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