NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2610MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +816%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

1280

240

TMUs

80

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GP106

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

16 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

120W

600 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 16-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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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