NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Jun 2017
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1290 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1468 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
20
Shading Units
1152
2560
TMUs
72
160
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
93.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
234.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
117.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
7.516 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
234.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
GP104
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
N17E-G3-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
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
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
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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OctaneBench
76
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
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Blender
188
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.