Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Unknown 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 1001 MHz 1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR5X
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.3GB/s 320.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 10 20
Shading Units 1280 2560
TMUs 80 160
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 109.4 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 GP104 GP104
GPU Variant GP104-150-KA-A1 GP104-400-A1
Architecture Pascal Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 16 nm 16 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 314 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 6.4 6.4