NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2505MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +1014%

48.74 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

GeForce RTX 4080 +1366%

132

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

GeForce RTX 4080 +623%

246

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

GeForce RTX 4080 +488%

300

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

GeForce RTX 4080 +339%

123

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

GeForce RTX 4080 +217%

165

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

GeForce RTX 4080 +150%

188

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

9728

80

TMUs

304

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD103

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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