NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

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

More VRAM (10GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +580%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +777%

79

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +308%

139

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +254%

181

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +282%

107

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +211%

162

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +153%

190

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

10

8704

Shading Units

1280

272

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

120W

700 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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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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