GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1060 (17/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 37)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 14)
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1060

17/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 37.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 14.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 13132 75605
Night Raid 54686 199650
Port Royal 844 23275
Solar Bay 11278 161489
Time Spy 4203 33000
Wild Life Extreme 8510 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 6.1 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 50 239
1080p Ultra 37 205
1440p Ultra 27 165
4K Ultra 13 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 38322213 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 96634218 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 302619- 21319213861
Far Cry 6 50453315 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 68372916 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 2920169 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 3222189 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 57493418 306276214111
The Witcher 3 54402613 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 10515 69068
Face Detection (HP) 6356 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1462 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 3872 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8136 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 3149 7905
Object Detection (SP) 2096 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 33181 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 67831 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1806 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 100.2 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.25 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 48.1 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.25 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.58 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.54 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4220.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 136.9 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP106 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700or above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released July 19, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1506 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 10 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 112
Shading Units 1280 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 72 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 737 1397
GPU Compute 4246 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 200 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 120 W 360 W
Transistor Count 4 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 20 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 82 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 137 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1060 GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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