GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 4080

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 4080, which features core clock speeds of 2205 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6X memory. It features 9728 SPUs along with 304 TAUs and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 4080		320 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 4080 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		734003 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 537395 (273%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4080 is quite a bit (approximately 456%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		670320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 549840 (456%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4080 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		246960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 174672 (242%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.