NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 32.70 slightly less expensive

$ 367.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

7102 points

241% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

161 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

97 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

114 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

73 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

11016 points

202% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2341.39 points

531% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

120612 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

105930 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

87178 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

112025 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

107797 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1515 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

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

67th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 2080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.