NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1733MHz vs 1650MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +23%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +6%

8018

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +6%

32

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +3%

62

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +8%

99

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

91

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +15%

52

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

45

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +12%

97

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

86

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +9%

128

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

117

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +1%

57

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +16%

86

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +12%

174

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2176

160

TMUs

136

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU106

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

184W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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