NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Dec 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
5GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
160bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
160.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
70
10
Shading Units
8960
1280
TMUs
280
80
ROPs
96
40
Tensor Cores
280
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RT Cores
70
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
1280 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
68.36 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GP106
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
GP106-350-K3-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
120W
Suggested PSU
750 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
Blender
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.