NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1710MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +130%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

2944

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GP104

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-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

215W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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