NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

7964 points

283% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

186 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

95 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

133 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

75 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

3279.67 points

784% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

138398 points

344% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

125425 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

91922 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

113801 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

103840 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

1110 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

115 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 3080 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060.