GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Apr 2017
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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 1080 11Gbps

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsGP104 (GP104-410-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders1920vs2560
Compute Units30vs20
Core clock1365 MHzvs1607 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs120vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5X
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1376 MHz
11008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
TDP160 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs20 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    110.90 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    277.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    352.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    8873.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better