NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1733MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +37%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

2560

120

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GP104

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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