NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 339.79

$ 25.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

6694 points

36% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

161 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

113 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

226% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

3124.65 points

414% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

101567 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

99687 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1925 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2075 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

11% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

175% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 4060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 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 RTX 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 RTX 4060 over the GeForce GTX 1080.