NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 30.00 slightly less expensive

$ 365.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

4905 points

136% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

94 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

79 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

62 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

64 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

7547 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

606.98 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

51531 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

23824 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

54640 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

66552 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

23824 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

60120 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

65170 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1607 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

49% significantly lower TDP

180 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

104th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 has slightly more memory with 8 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.