GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2497MHz vs 1733MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
GeForce RTX 5060
+116%
19180
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1080
7565
GeForce RTX 5060
+81%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1080
3446
GeForce RTX 5060
+87%
6452
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
30
2560
Shading Units
3840
160
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
145W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GB206
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
6.1
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
