NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 289.00

$ 110.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

203% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

202% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1506 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1708 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

83% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

152% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

188% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

188% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

211% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

211% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.