NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

14473 points

131% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

355 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

182 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

253 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

145 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

7059.26 points

719% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

181715 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

172409 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1335 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1695 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

576 GB/s

18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

9728

171% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

304

35% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

27% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

19th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.