GeForce RTX 4060 vs GTX 1080 Ti
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
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We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 6 years and 4 months older GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 34% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 11.3 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 24 dedicated RT cores
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 42% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (106K vs 74K)
- Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- Includes 3 GB more video memory
- Has 78% higher memory bandwidth: 484.4 vs 272 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 128 78 66 47 |
119 76 65 42 |
| The Witcher 3 | 143 117 82 44 |
134 110 81 42 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 208 157 111 58 |
199 146 106 51 |
| Far Cry 6 | 105 98 76 45 |
102 90 72 38 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 78 65 47 26 |
75 59 46 23 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 98 90 64 43 |
91 79 56 39 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 73 61 45 27 |
69 54 42 25 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 82 75 43 22 |
77 70 42 18 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 128 119 85 46 |
118 109 78 40 |
| 1080p High | 116 | 109 |
| 1080p Ultra | 96 | 88 |
| 1440p Ultra | 69 | 65 |
| 4K Ultra | 40 | 35 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10615 | 9981 |
| Solar Bay | 49340 | 26263 |
| Port Royal | 6054 | 2266 |
| Fire Strike | 28540 | 29329 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 20610 | 20170 |
| Night Raid | 121368 | 95847 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 186.9 img/sec | 200.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 112.7 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.92 Gpixels/sec | 3.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.16 Gpixels/sec | 5.57 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.94 Gpixels/sec | 5.79 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.34 Gpixels/sec | 0.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 446.2 Gpixels/sec | 265.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14935.1 FPS | 6315.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1036 | 941 |
| DirectX 11 | 174 FPS | 151 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 76 FPS | 66 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9150 Ops/s | 9585 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 105636 |
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Cinebench 2024 | 10606 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 7696 | 3882 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 13706 | 7960 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 23289 | 14401 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 31126 | 13001 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 78361 | 72329 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3315 | 1910 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3491 | 3577 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9386 | 4757 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 36778 | 20303 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 148120 | 164740 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and GTX 1080 TiGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | May 18, 2023 | March 10, 2017 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | $699 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | AD107 | GP102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 7700 XT | - Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 | - GeForce RTX 3080 Ti |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 14600K or above | - Intel Core i7 7700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (54th and 61st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1830 MHz | 1481 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2460 MHz | 1582 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 96 | 224 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 88 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 24 | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 24 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 24MB shared | 2816KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 118 GPixel/s | 139 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 236 GTexel/s | 354 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 115 W | 250 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 159 mm² | 471 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 18 billion | 11 billion |
| Transistor Density | 113.21 MTr/mm² | 23.35 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 11 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1376 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 11000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 352-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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