NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +1138%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

10

10752

Shading Units

1280

336

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GP104

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

7.2 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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