NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 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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$ 367.70

$ 289.00

$ 78.70 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

245% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

722% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

211% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

0.60% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

0.12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

133% 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

155% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

155% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

155% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

155% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 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 2080 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 RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.