Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2016 | Oct 2018 |
| 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 | 1001 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | GDDR5X |
| 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 | 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 | GP104 |
| GPU Variant | GP104-400-A1 | GP104-150-KA-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 | 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 |