GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and GeForce RTX 3080 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
GeForce RTX 3080
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2017
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1480 MHz
1710 MHz
Core clock speed
1265 MHz
1450 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
8704
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
320 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
465.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
10 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
19000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
760.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
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DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2