NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 784.20 significantly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
24070 points
1058% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
559 FPS
516 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
276 FPS
242 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
406 FPS
378 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
225 FPS
199 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce RTX 5080? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
8762 points
140% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
9133.30 points
2362% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
267906 points
727% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
257198 points
731% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
2295 MHz
34% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
16 GiB
166% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
200% significantly lower TDP
360 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR7

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 5080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce GTX 1060.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons