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    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1060

    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    GeForce GTX 1060
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jul 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      108%
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    Around 8% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1080 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    The GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
    GPU NameGP104 ()vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
    Fab Process16 nmvs16 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs200 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvs4,400 million
    Shaders2560vs1280
    Compute Units20vs10
    Core clock1556 MHzvs1506 MHz
    ROPs64vs48
    TMUs160vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
    Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1251 MHz
    10008 MHz effective    		vs2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 1060
    TDP150 wattsvs120 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs10 Jul 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      99.60 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      72.30 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      249.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      120.50 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      320.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      192.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      7967.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      3855.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      18790
    • GeForce GTX 1060
      17380

    Points (higher is better)

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