GeForce RTX 2080 Super vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2019
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 2080 Super .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 2080 Super

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2080 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GPU NameTU104 (TU104-450-A1)vsGP104 ()
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size545 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors13,600 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders3072vs1280
Compute Units48vs10
Core clock1650 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs192vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2080 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5X
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1940 MHz
15520 MHz effective
vs1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2080 SuperGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
TDP215 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date23 Jul 2019vsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    116.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    82.03 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    348.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    136.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    496.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    11150.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    4375.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better