NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1733MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +13%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7534

GeForce RTX 2080 +45%

10952

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

GeForce RTX 2080 +43%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

GeForce RTX 2080 +37%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

GeForce RTX 2080 +28%

127

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

GeForce RTX 2080 +21%

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

97

GeForce RTX 2080 +17%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GeForce RTX 2080 +23%

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce RTX 2080 +89%

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 2080 +45%

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 2080 +16%

180

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2944

160

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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