NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 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 3% (1733MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

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

Lower TDP (160W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +37%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1920

160

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

160W

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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