EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.45 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G has 1152 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 3.94 TFLOPS.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 9 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip GP106-300-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 9
2560 Shader 1152
64 Render Output Units 48
160 Texture Units 72
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.376 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G has a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 3 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR5
1.376 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
11.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz has a turbo clock of 1.847 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G is 1.708 GHz.

1.708 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.847 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

180 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 175 mm
111 mm Height 115 mm
-- Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 472 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING 11GHz was released in Q2/2016.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

08G-P4-6583-KR Part-no --
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2016
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (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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