NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

11608 points

548% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

281 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

141 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

200 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

111 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

17631 points

435% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

4821.52 points

1288% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

206390 points

628% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

181771 points

507% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

126138 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

173309 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

158661 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1440 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

1710 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

10 GiB

66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

320 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

295% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

300% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

131% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

292% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

685% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

8704

580% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

239% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.