GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

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

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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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2080 should theoretically be a lot better 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 should be quite a bit (about 131%) faster with regards to texture 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 running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is a better choice, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.