GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile vs GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	115
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	17.94
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GP104	TU104
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	8 March 2018 (6 years ago)	2 April 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	3072
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	1365 MHz
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	136.6	299.5
Floating-point processing power	4.372 TFLOPS	9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	64
TMUs	80	192
Tensor Cores	no data	384
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	250 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB/s	448.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.140
CUDA	6.1	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 March 2018	2 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt

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