NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2016
May 2016
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
20
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
138.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GP104
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
GP104-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
180W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-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
6.8
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,203
7,565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,917
3,446
Battlefield 5 1080p
74
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
9
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
32
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
50
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
27
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
50
97
GTA 5 2160p
-
56
GTA 5 1440p
-
74
GTA 5 1080p
-
154