GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps
vs
GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC)


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps and the GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC), we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, which has 2944 shaders and 46 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps GPU GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip TU104
Pascal Architecture Turing
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
1280 Shader 2944
48 Render Output Units 64
80 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 199 GB/s.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.079 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.3 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
199 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps clocks in the base with up to 1.620 GHz. The base frequency of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) is 1.515 GHz.

1.620 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.873 GHz Boost Clock 1.755 GHz
1.85 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) has a TDP of 215 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 215 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED Addressable LED

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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is 281 mm long, 137 mm high and 59 mm wide.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) is 295 mm long, 143 mm high and 52 mm wide.

281 mm Length 295 mm
137 mm Height 143 mm
59 mm Width 52 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX (1-Click OC) was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

GV-N1060AORUS X-6GD Part-no 28NSL6UCU9EN
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2018
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 12 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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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