NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

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

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1733MHz vs 1620MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +18%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +17%

8863

GeForce GTX 1080

7534

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 +15%

37

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 +9%

68

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

98

GeForce GTX 1080 +1%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 +3%

54

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

96

GeForce GTX 1080 +1%

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 +53%

86

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 +21%

90

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 +15%

178

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 2070

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GP104

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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