NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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The mobile Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 is a graphics card for high end laptops. It is based on the Pascal architecture and manufactured in 16 nm FinFET at TSMC. The GPU is using the smaller GP106 chip. Compared to the desktop version of the GTX 1060, the laptop version offers the same amount of shaders but slightly lower clock rates. The TDP is slightly less than the old GTX 970M (predecessor).

For thin and light laptops Nvidia offer a Max-Q called version of the GTX 1060 with lower TDP and also significantly lower performance. Sadly this variant im sold with the same GTX 1060 name, making it hard to judge the performance.

The performance of the mobile GTX 1060 is a few percent below a reference GTX 1060 desktop card. In our benchmark so far (no max-Q version) the mobile GTX 1060 was somewhere between -1 and -16% slower than a desktop variant. A comprehensive review of the dekstop GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition with 6 GB GDDR5 can be found here. Therefore, the card is most suited for Full HD or WQHD gaming in high to maximum details (see benchmarks below).

The GP106 chip is produced in 16nm FinFET at TSMC and offers a range of new features, like DisplayPort 1.4 (ready), HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP) and improved H.265 video de- and encoding (PlayReady 3.0). A list of improvements and features can be found in our article on the Pascal architecture.

The power consumption is specified with a TGP of 80 Watt and therefore slightly below the old GTX 970M. Since summer 2017 a low power variant (Max-Q) is available for thin and light laptops with reduced performance and a lower TGP of 60 - 70 Watt.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super is a high-end desktop graphics card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. It uses the AD103 chip in full configuration with 10,240 cores and 16 GB GDDR6X graphics memory (256-bit bus with 23 Gbits).

The ray tracing performance is outstanding thanks to 76 dedicated cores and the 320 Tensor cores can be used for DLSS 3.

The gaming performance without DLSS is ideal for 4k with around 60fps and 2k with higher frame rates in demanding games without ray tracing effects (e.g. F1 22 or Cyberpunk 2077). With ray tracing, the use of DLSS is recommended. Compared to the competition, the performance without DLSS and ray tracing is slightly better than the significantly cheaper AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT.

The currently available RTX 4080 cards are very large (2.5 or 3 slots) and use the new 12VHPWR connector (which has caused some problems with adapters).

The AD103 chip is produced at TSMC in 5nm (4N with EUV) and is specified with a TGP (Total Graphics Power) of 320 watts (Nvidia recommends at least a 750 watt power supply).

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
GeForce RTX 4000 Series	GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 3584 @ 1.48 - 1.6 GHz 352 Bit @ 11000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Laptop) 5120 @ 1.56 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 3840 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop) 4096 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) 2560 @ 1.61 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 2560 @ 1.57 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (Desktop) 2432 @ 1.61 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) 1920 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 2560 @ 1.1 - 1.28 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 2048 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 2048 @ 1.1 - 1.27 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop) 1280 @ 1.51 - 1.71 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 1280 @ 1.4 - 1.67 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 1280 @ 1.06 - 1.34 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 768 @ 1.49 - 1.62 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) 768 @ 1.29 - 1.39 GHz 128 Bit @ 7008 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 768 @ 1.15 - 1.29 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) 640 @ 1.35 - 1.46 GHz 128 Bit @ 7008 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 640 @ 1.35 - 1.49 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 640 @ 1 - 1.14 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop) 384 @ 1.23 - 1.67 GHz 64 Bit @ 6000 MHz	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 16384 @ 2.24 - 2.52 GHz 384 Bit @ 21000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 10240 @ 2.3 - 2.55 GHz ? Bit @ 23000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 9728 @ 2.21 - 2.51 GHz 256 Bit @ 22400 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 8448 @ 2.34 - 2.61 GHz 256 Bit @ 21000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 7680 @ 2.31 - 2.61 GHz 192 Bit @ 21000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 7168 @ 1.98 - 2.48 GHz 192 Bit @ 21000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 5888 @ 1.92 - 2.48 GHz 192 Bit @ 21000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16G 4352 @ 2.31 - 2.54 GHz 128 Bit @ 18000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G 4352 @ 2.31 - 2.54 GHz 128 Bit @ 18000 MHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 3072 @ 1.83 - 2.46 GHz 128 Bit @ 17000 MHz
Codename	N17E-G1	AD103-400-A1
Architecture	Pascal	Ada Lovelace
Pipelines	1280 - unified	10240 - unified
TMUs	80	320
ROPs	48	112
Core Speed	1404 - 1670 (Boost) MHz	2295 - 2550 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed	8000 effective = 2002 MHz	23000 effective = 1438 MHz
Memory Bus Width	192 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR6X
Max. Amount of Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Shared Memory	no	no
Memory Bandwidth	192 GB/s	256 GB/s
API	DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.5	DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
Power Consumption	80 Watt	320 Watt
Transistors	4.4 Billion	45.900 Million
technology	16 nm	5 nm
PCIe	3.0	PCIe 4.0 x16
Features	Multi-Projection, VR Ready, G-SYNC, Vulkan, Multi Monitor
Notebook Size	large
Date of Announcement	18.08.2016	31.01.2024
Link to Manufacturer Page	www.nvidia.de
Raytracing Cores		80
Tensor / AI Cores		320
Theoretical Performance		52.22 TFLOPS FP16, 52.22 TFLOPS FP32, 816 TFLOPS FP64
Cache		L2: 64 MB
Die Size		379 mm²
Displays		4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a

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