NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1733MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +284%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +162%

19771

GeForce GTX 1080

7534

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +187%

92

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +146%

153

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +101%

199

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +119%

114

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +92%

187

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +55%

199

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +82%

102

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +102%

150

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +20%

186

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

10240

Shading Units

2560

320

TMUs

160

112

ROPs

64

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

180W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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