NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 1748.4x more texture fill rate: 239.0 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 6144 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 26045 vs 14345
  • Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 26045 vs 14345
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 5 January 2018
Texture fill rate 239.0 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 6144 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 120 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 26045 vs 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 26045 vs 14345

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

  • Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1245 MHz
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 780 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
26045
14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
26045
14345
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16503
PassMark - G2D Mark 643
Geekbench - OpenCL 105640
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 26045 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 26045 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 11904

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA104 GP106
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 5 January 2018
Place in performance rating 119 72
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1245 MHz 1709 MHz
Core clock speed 780 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 239.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.30 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.30 TFLOPS
Pipelines 6144 1280
Pixel fill rate 119.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 239.0 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Length 250 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready