GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2080, which has a core clock speed of 1515 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It features 2944 SPUs, 184 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 13796 (112%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (133%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is a lot (about 131%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158280 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24672 (34%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.