GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce RTX 3080 Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

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

More VRAM (10GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 216.7GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +580%

29770

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

4375

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2017

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

2257 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/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

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP106

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-410-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

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 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

Related SoC Comparison

1

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080

2

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4070

3

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

4

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 3080

5

GeForce RTX 3080 vs RTX A4000

6

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080

7

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

8

GeForce RTX 4050 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

9

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon HD 7850

10

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP