NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 533.99 significantly less expensive
$ 868.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
14177 points
582% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
342 FPS
299 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
168 FPS
134 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
245 FPS
217 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
135 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
19628 points
439% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
5580.42 points
1404% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points
235513 points
656% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points
209081 points
545% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points
131975 points
319% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
191836 points
492% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
173043 points
459% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
24% slightly higher core clock speed
1370 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
12 GiB
100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
191% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti specs and performance

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

Our database shows that 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 RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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