NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

5072 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

106 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

75 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

75 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

8739 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2209.96 points

264% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

95114 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

85216 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

73672 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

90113 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

85182 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

1407 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

448 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

175 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

105.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

224.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

7.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

17% slightly more shading units

2176

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

17% slightly more texture mapping units

136

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

100th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 July

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 vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 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 GTX 1080 over the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER.