NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +600%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +380%

18801

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3909

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +450%

88

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +277%

151

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

191

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +263%

109

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +240%

184

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +171%

198

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

1280

280

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

40

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP106

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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