NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +600%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

1280

280

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 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

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