NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Apr 2017
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1607 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
2257 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
216.7GB/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
110.9 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
GP106
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GP106-410-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
180W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

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

📊 Benchmark

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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
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128
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
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Battlefield 5 2160p
52
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Battlefield 5 1440p
97
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GTA 5 2160p
56
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GTA 5 1440p
74
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GTA 5 1080p
154
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