GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs RTX 2080 Ti

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	44	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	22.32	no data
Power efficiency	15.71	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	TU102	GP104
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 September 2018 (6 years ago)	8 March 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	4352	1280
Core clock speed	1350 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz	1708 MHz
Number of transistors	18,600 million	7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	420.2	136.6
Floating-point processing power	13.45 TFLOPS	4.372 TFLOPS
ROPs	88	48
TMUs	272	80
Tensor Cores	544	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	68	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	250 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin

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	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	11 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	352 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth	616.0 GB/s	192.2 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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 Ultimate (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	7.5	6.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 September 2018	8 March 2018
Maximum RAM amount	11 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	120 Watt

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