NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Jan 2018
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1290 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
10
Shading Units
2560
1280
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
93.95 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
234.9 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
117.4 GFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.516 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
234.9 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GP106
GPU Variant
N17E-G3-A1
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
16 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.4