NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
7890 points
283% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
185 FPS
143 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
95 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
132 FPS
106 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
75 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
3279.67 points
1052% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points
138398 points
333% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
125425 points
269% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
91922 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
113801 points
240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
103840 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
35% slightly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
448 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
115 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
148.3 Gigapixels/s
80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
296.6 Gigatexels/s
141% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS
18.98 TFLOPS
382% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
6144
433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
192
166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
96
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
59th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons