NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2505MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +449%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +275%

28272

GeForce GTX 1080

7536

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +312%

132

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +296%

246

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +203%

300

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +136%

123

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +70%

165

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +46%

188

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +125%

126

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +144%

181

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +18%

182

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

20

9728

Shading Units

2560

304

TMUs

160

112

ROPs

64

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

761.5 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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GP104

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

379 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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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