NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
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
1376 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
352.3GB/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
GP104-410-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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.