NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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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$ 749.99

$ 289.00

$ 460.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

464% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

239 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

1594% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

546% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

435% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

389% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

1506 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

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

320 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

295% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

120 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

278% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

656% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

655% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

277% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 at 320 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 3080 over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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