GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
October 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-