NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +2540%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

14

2560

Shading Units

112

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G92

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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