NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (180W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +235%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +135%

17753

GeForce GTX 1080

7536

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +146%

79

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +124%

139

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +82%

181

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +105%

107

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +67%

162

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +48%

190

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +64%

92

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +90%

141

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +11%

172

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

20

8704

Shading Units

2560

272

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

180W

700 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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-200-KD-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

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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