EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1)


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1), we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which has 3584 shaders and 28 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip GP102-350-K1-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
1280 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 88
80 Texture Units 224
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) can access 11 GB GDDR5X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 528 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5X
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.431 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 11.4 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 528 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB clocks in the base with up to 1.506 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) is 1.607 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.746 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.72 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) has a TDP of 280 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 280 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) has 1 Axial (Radiator) fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) is 267 mm long, 123 mm high and 36 mm wide.

267 mm Length 267 mm
111 mm Height 123 mm
-- Width 36 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING ACX 3.0 6GB was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G (rev. 1.0/1.1) was introduced in Q1/2017 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

06G-P4-6262-KR Part-no GV-N108TAORUSX W-11GD
Q3/2016 Release date Q1/2017
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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